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It is hard to answer this question because (a) there was no single winter festival, but different cultures celebrated the Gunnar Henderson & Anthony Santander Win It for Birdland Shirt around the winter solstice in different ways, and (b) we have no means of telling βwhat was considered the true meaningβ in the case of those festivals celebrated in illiterate societies, apart from guesswork and deduction. And where there are written records, as in China and ancient Rome, they tell us little about βtrue meaningsβ. From Chinese poetry and practice, we can infer that behind the festival was gratitude that the shorter nights that were coming heralded the return of warmth and life, and from Roman practice we can infer that people were happy that the sun was at last increasing in strength. Portraying this as a battle between light and darkness, though, is pure speculation. It is natural to suppose.
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The English term Christmas (Old English, Cristes maesse) is actually of Gunnar Henderson & Anthony Santander Win It for Birdland Shirt recent origin: the feast day only began to be widely celebrated with a specific liturgy (the Cristes maesse) in the 9th century. The earlier term Yule, from the Germanic jΕl or the Anglo-Saxon geΕl, referred to the feast of the winter solstice, and made no mention of Christian church liturgy or practices. On Christmas Day, the Church traditionally celebrated three Masses. The first of these took place at midnight and celebrated of the actual birth of Christ. None of the contemporary Christmas customs have their origin in these liturgical affirmation (or masses), and most are of a much more recent date. The exchange of gifts originally took place in the early hours of the 25th when people returned home from the first, midnight mass. When it became customary to open gifts later in the day, the times of many church services were altered – another example of how far from the idea of the liturgical βCristes maesseβ the holiday has come.