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It's Christmas Eve ....
"T'was the Night before Christmas, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring ... not even a mouse" ....
According to the BBC--
"Every year, a week or so before Christmas, Chester's streets [in Britain] are filled with the same sights, sounds and smells that have marked Saturnalia in the city since its days as the Roman city of 'Deva Victrix' ...
"Saturnalia saw gift-giving and excessive eating and drinking, traditions that continued when it was replaced by Christmas after the fall of the Roman Empire, but in Chester, which was once Rome's largest fortress in Britain ['Deva Victrix'], more of it has survived into modern times ...."
Why was the original "Christmas" -- the date marking, for Christians, the birth of their Sacred Savior, Jesus Christ -- moved from the Spring (when scholars estimate it originally took place, if shepherds were "watching their flocks by night ...") to the much older "Winter Solstice celebrations" of ancient Rome?
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Tonight, Christmas Eve 2023, we explore and celebrate the distant "hyperdimensional" origins of "Christmas" -- with our friends and guides, anthropologist Maria Wheately, and metaphysician Georgia Lambert. It is, as you will find, a journey FAR, FAR older than just "Rome" ....
Join us. Richard C. Hoagland Copyright 2023
