Presumably this tradition was related to Saturn’s position in relation to a usurping Jupiter. This is to say that during the Saturnalia, symbolically, Saturn, the Semitic slave, ruled Jupiter, the Aryan master. The festival was developed, in part, to honor a passed “Golden Age” when Saturn or, clearly, proto-Jews ruled.
That Christmas would develop in part from this tradition is wholly appropriate as both Christ and Saturn are manifestations of the Jewish God or Jewry embodied. But further, the winter in general was understood in the Greco-Roman world as belonging to Bacchus or Dionysus. That is to say it was a time of decadence, degeneracy, darkness and death.
Bacchus, likewise, is an important manifestation of the Jewish God as
this study explicates. Here though, in the nadir of winter, the Winter
solstice was also celebrated, signifying the beginning of a return to
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