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The New Year for us Westerners is coming right up, New Year’s Day is January 1. But why is this? What’s so special about the first of January? The Jews celebrate it for ten days starting on Sept. 15 and ending on the 25th. The Chinese New Year starts Jan. 29th and lasts about 16 days.
The old year ACTUALLY ends and restarts on Dec. 21, which is the day of the Winter Equinox, when the days are at their shortest and begin to lengthen again. That would be the day to celebrate the New Year.
Unfortunately, the Equinox was pre-empted by the Christians, who usurped the birthday of Mithras, which was the date of the Winter Equinox according to the Romans, who set it as Dec. 25. The worship of the god Mithras dates back about 6000 years and possibly earlier and the birthday of Jesus was set as Dec. 25 to push back against the competing Pagan faith of Mithrasim which held that Mithras was born on the day of the Winter Equinox.
January 1 was set as the first day of the new year by the Romans to honor Janus, the god of beginnings, and when they all turned Christian and created popes, a Roman pope, Pope Gregory XIII created a revised calendar that officially established January 1 as New Year’s Day in 1582 to put an end to lingering Pagan beliefs.
So New Year’s Day has been Jan. 1 for only 442 years. Before then it was Dec. 25 for most of the world known to the Roman Empire and throughout the Middle East, and before the Romans it was whatever day on whatever measuring system they used that was the shortest day of the year. This, by the way, wasn’t just that one day but many days of celebrating and included cutting down a tree and burning the log, our Christmas Tree today, and the Yule Log in the fireplace. All Pagan gifts from the remote past.
One last mention, Jesus was not born on Dec. 25, obviously, that date was stolen from Mithras, as I mentioned. We do know when he was born, though, because of the account in the bible of his parents, Joseph and Mary, journeying to Bethlehem to pay their taxes owed to Rome. Tax day in Rome was April 15, a day chosen after winter’s storms were over and before it was time to plant, to make it easy for people to travel to the towns where taxes were collected.
Jesus was born the night before tax day. He was born April 14. As to the specific year, however, there’s argument. But that was the day of the year.
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Author: Black Sheep
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