Chanukkah is a festival celebrating a light that miraculously kept burning at the darkest part of the year, just as the days start growing longer again. Christmas is a festival celebrating a saviour-god [about whom there are endless metaphors concerning light] coming to Earth in physical form, just as the days start growing longer again. Heck, Dies Natalis Sol Invictus is a festival celebrating the sun-god being reborn at the darkest part of the year — just as the days start growing longer again. The parallels honestly aren't that hard to see.
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Date: 2007-01-04 10:02 pm (UTC)Chanukkah is a festival celebrating a light that miraculously kept burning at the darkest part of the year, just as the days start growing longer again. Christmas is a festival celebrating a saviour-god [about whom there are endless metaphors concerning light] coming to Earth in physical form, just as the days start growing longer again. Heck, Dies Natalis Sol Invictus is a festival celebrating the sun-god being reborn at the darkest part of the year — just as the days start growing longer again. The parallels honestly aren't that hard to see.
Same thing, different name.