What is All Saints' Day?

[@winterthemuteson]

Kind of a minor correction, but in Catholic school we were taught that a saint with a lowercase s is anyone who has gone to heaven, while a Saint with a capital s is one of the people that the church has officially declared as having gone to heaven. Therefore, All Saints Day isn't just about the Saints and the martyrs, but the saints as a whole. All Souls Day is for people in both heaven and purgatory.

[@HolaBruv]

No such thing as purgatory that’s a heretical teaching

[@alhilford2345]

@@HolaBruv : ...and your evidence ?

[@JimmyHandtrixx]

ridiculous! when you say the word saint it matters not the lower or capital letter!

[@jmorr1780]

Nov 2 is All Souls Day for everyone else that isn't a Saint ✝️

[@jmorr1780]

​@HolaBruv Instead of being inflammatory, understand purgatory is just one being purified before entering heaven. It's not a place. We both believe Jesus died for our sins. This is just the part where we are cleansed. ✝️

[@b.griffin317]

Please do a video on the history of Christian veneration of saints.

[@bobmcbob9856]

@God Is Sovereign while I get the argument against saint veneration, this is a channel which talks about religion academically, not theologically, so anyone professing faith in Jesus as the son of God or as God & as a saviour is considered a Christian, & Catholics are a pretty common group that fits that mould, probably the first group a lot of people imagine when you say Christian, and it’s not just Catholics that venerate saints. From an academic perspective, many Christians venerate saints, from a theological standpoint, it’s down to what each person believes to be the correct interpretation of Jesus’ teachings

[@1ACL]

@God Is Sovereign Catholics ARE Christians!

[@ftdefiance1]

@God Is Sovereign I don't have a stake in this fight but if your claiming Catholicism is a cult your watching the wrong channel.

[@ftdefiance1]

@God Is Sovereign 😁 How do you propose making me do that? Saying that online is the most foolish thing you can do.

[@JRios270]

I would love to see such a video!

[@fmac6441]

In Brazil, all souls day (“dia de finados” “day of the dead") is an official holiday and we do not work. Catholics, especially or older, use the date to visit or remember their deceased loved ones, but for most people it's a day to enjoy the break. Halloween has been gaining ground mainly in schools, as an extension of English classes, but also as theme parties.

[@sakuralily5907]

In the Philippines All Saints Day is like a reunion among relatives as they visit the graves of departed loved ones. As a kid I never liked it much since we usually spent the entire day in the cemetery which I found boring. That also means All Souls Day technically isn't celebrated, since families usually go to the cemetery on All Saints Day.

[@krakendragonslayer1909]

It is the opposite to Poland ;) where we mainly celebrate Souls Day

[@angelarbab0091]

This was amazing, a friend of mine (Iranian) living in Stockholm sent me photos of the cemetery last night, it was beautiful. She lit a candle in memory of her mom passed in Iran… I think your view of religion is so darn beautiful and I wish you interview Yuval Harari one day! He is my favorite author and h are my favorite KZbinr, I think it would be absolutely phenomenal and insightful for all of us. Think about it please 🙏🏻

[@dstinnettmusic]

As a practicing Episcopalian, I can tell you that the liturgy is very death and resurrection focused in this time of year. I love the church calendar for this reason, guiding the mind and heart towards reflection on these important topics.

[@Austin8thGenTexan]

And it's one of our four annual feasts during which we baptize newcomers into the Church family... 💦 💧 🌊

[@MrISkater]

Why are you not Catholic?

[@boisterousjoy]

Your videos really tickle a part of my mind I can't exercise everywhere. Thank you so much

[@yurineri2227]

here in brazil, we get a day off in all souls day and we actually only celebrate all saints day a few days later on the day of the following weekend mass, the official date of the all saints day is still right next to all souls day but in practice the church moves the day a bit later so people have more breathing room between morning for deceased loved ones and celebrating the saints

[@varana]

What is missing from the picture, I think, is that Sweden has been an almost exclusively Protestant (more specifically: Lutheran) country since the 1500s. In Protestant Christianity, veneration (or even acknowledgment) of Saints is not a thing, so All Saints' Day lost basically its reason for existing. Some form of commemoration of the dead was still relevant, so a form of All Souls' Day endured, but the other two went out of favour until Halloween was reintroduced from abroad.

[@Nono-hk3is]

Indeed. In my Northern US Baptist tradition, the church members were referred to as the saints, so there'd be little sense distinguishing between All Saints and All Souls.

[@monisiay]

It’s an interesting point but Poland has been a predominantly catholic country and all saints in Poland is celebrated exactly the same way as described in the video (except for the moving date - in Poland it’s always November the 1st and the 2nd)

[@DeFyYing]

Lutherans have a calendar of saints just like Catholics, we just don’t venerate them. They’re basically people that we think are worthy of emulating

[@brookny_doe]

In Lithuania we officially have All Saints day on November 1st and All Souls day on November 2nd, but the latter is a pagan holiday with very old traditions on having feasts in cemeteries or leaving food offerings for spirits. Halloween is also becoming more popular, so we have all 3 days of either celebration or stillness and respect for the dead.

[@pakistanitraveller475]

Learnt so much from this channel. Love the videos ❤️

[@googleaccount4471]

@God Is Sovereign Stop replying to every comment you Protestant freak, you may like to know the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, founded by God the Holy Spirit in a small room on Pentacost 33AD, the Orthodox Church has been venerating and loving our holy saints since that time.

[@albertohernandez8721]

@God Is Sovereign why are you here on this channel anyway?

[@redflags6583]

In the Philippines, we don't celebrate Halloween (generally. There is a recent trend of celebrating Halloween in the Western tradition, but this is more an effect of class and neo-colonial attitudes than anything), but we do celebrate All Saints and (to some extent) All Souls. More the former than the latter, to the point that All Souls is barely a holiday. We call the period "Undas". It's more or less the same as how you described it in Sweden (All Saints' is more about remembering loved ones than remembering saints per se, etc.). Generally, families tend to visit their loved ones near November 1 to avoid the rush, but most do respect the tradition. The real interesting part, though, is how November 1 relates to indigenous populations and indigenous burial practice. In the Cordillera, they celebrate Undas by making huge bonfires. Quite a sight. I don't know much else about how other IP's remember the dead, but I'm sure somebody else knows.

[@MrNeumerker]

Mycket saklig och god presentation. Tack!

[@chris7263]

I never actually realized there was a difference between All Saints and All Souls day. I grew up in the Methodist church in the US and we celebrated "All Saints Day" in church on the first Sunday of November, but--as it was explained to me--since we're protestants we don't have formal saints, so we just commemorated everyone from the church or someone's family who'd died in the past year. I think there was also some wording about a saint being anyone who'd inspired you in your faith, so we'd meditate on who those people had been.

[@Beepbeep_its_treasure]

Sounds lovely

[@davidcheater4239]

It's nice to hear you talk about practice in Sweden. The phenomenon of Secular Christianity seems to have a lot in common with a lot of Jewish practice; disengagement from institutional religion but emphasis on home/family/community. I know many Jews who do not attend religious services but still practice Chanukkah and Passover.

[@olegkirovskii2720]

That's how tradition dies. My great-great-grandfather was a rabbi. He obviously celebrated all holidays in very proper way. My great-grandfather grew up to be an atheist (not such an impossible change in 1920s Russia), but he celebrated Passover and Chanukkah, throughout his life. My grandfather and grandmother were brought up as atheists (Soviet upbringing), but they emphasized the Passover and we always had matzah and wine and some celebration. My parents never celebrated any Jewish religious holiday, just ate some matzah on the proper date... And I even don't care about that matzah anymore

[@olegkirovskii2720]

@Daren Fliflet the funny thing is that we still consider ourselves Jews (and other people also consider ourselves Jews as well)

[@josephang9927]

Many Jews don't even believe in God but do have a supremacist view of their own people, probabky as a ironic shadow response to Nazism directly causing Israel to exist.

[@PoppinPsinceAD33]

Well I think secular Christianity is pointless. You can’t have the good things without it fading away slowly when the core is cold.

[@loretta5432]

My birthday is November 1st!! Always loved learning about these traditions!!

[@bapuente]

Mine too! Happy belated birthday 😇

[@loretta5432]

@@bapuenteyou too!! yay for an awesome birthday!

[@Beepbeep_its_treasure]

I'm on holidays now in the Phillipines and it's nov 1. It's all saints day and I've never heard of it before!

[@francophone.]

Here is France, All Saints' Day is a holiday, and many people get time off from work. Just a note, in the Catholic Church, at least, All Saints' Day is a commemoration of all the saints _known and unknown_ (as not all saints have been canonised. Anyone in heaven is a saint). Do you know if only the Church of Sweden celebrates on the first Saturday of November, or do other Christian traditions do so as well?

[@el_rey_gris9321]

Please do more on Catholicism and the Church fathers!!!

[@pilartobala9901]

Filip you are very nace. Bendiciones desde México 🇲🇽!

[@arkofthecovenant6235]

This channel reminds me of my cultural anthropology class back in my college days. Keep doing good quality production🕯👍🏼🕯

[@krakendragonslayer1909]

To make it full, you need to include custom of *Дзяды* ( *Dziady* , Grandfathers) celebrated in regions of Polesia, Podlachia, in nowadays eastern Lithuania and in land of Belarus including Smolensk - all those lands together are called "old Lithuania". Basically the holiday is a feast in the midnight in cementeries (graves of grandfathers serve as tables), and magic mushrooms are sometimes considered as a part of tradition during it.

[@JackDivision]

Thank you ! I was just thinking abt it this week, asking myself what are these days representing and how they are interconnected..

[@DutchJoan]

Quite a healthy way of celebrating All Saints and All Souls. I can't remember which day it was, but Iranians have a day where they'll visit the cemetery too. I think it's a lovely custom.

[@kuroazrem5376]

I like that you kept the spooky atmosphere.

[@Monotheist137]

I would like some insight on trinity development if possible

[@olympicviewcommunitychurch4089]

I really found this video informative. Would it be possible for me to use this in our Sunday service this week commemorating All Soul's Day? We do stream the service with an average viewership of 15-20 people on KZbin and Facebook. I'll make sure to include the links to support your work in the video description. Please let me know if that is OK. Thanks, Pastor Glenn Brumbaugh, Olympic View Community Church, Seattle, WA USA

[@JAlanne]

We celebrate on the traditional days. But there are less people at the cemetery on all saints day. When I asked my dad why we went to the cemetery on the wrong date he said. Well of course we go on all saints day, your great grand father was a saint! (It was because there was easier parking space and fewer people)

[@gaymoder]

I really love how, in most of Europe, traditionally Christian holidays are observed, yes, but they're also given new meanings that are somewhat apart from its religious origin, making them a tradition that everyone can celebrate without feeling that they're "crossing boundaries" if they practice a different religion than Christianity. For example, if an outspoken atheist or if a Muslim celebrates Christmas, they still wouldn't be labelled as "Christian" by others, just someone else who also celebrates what most people do. Here in Peru, it's very much the opposite: if you celebrate a Christian holiday, you're automatically a Christian, even if you personally don't have any religious convictions at all and many people profusely object on giving such holidays a more "secular" or "cutural" meaning that everyone, regardless of personal religious identification, can enjoy. That's how I see it, at least.

[@FernandoMendoza-dw8nz]

As an “American” in the US who comes from a Mexican family from the more indigenous south I can see it as a reactionary outlook. We had to give up many of our ways by the Spanish. Now you get people who want to make people give up or lessen their overt Christian ways. My family tended to have really mixed Spanish and indigenous names before my grandparents. Now we have very traditional Spanish names. My grandparents preferred something more “proper.” Yet I would be unwilling to give up the name I have now for a more traditional native derived one. Also as a person of no religious faith I see such separation as hollowing out the religious practice. Not so different from how Christian missionaries reinterpreted local customs to distant it from the original practice.

[@brodar2232]

Didn't know you were from Sweden! It would be nice if we could get an Ivan Aguéli video :) Great work as always!

[@stphnmrrs3982]

I'd love to see a video on the Bektashi Sufis. They played a vital role in Ottoman history and had a large following amongst the Jannisaries.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

It is really interesting that in a country which definitely went in the Protestant block during the reformation and dropped All Souls day (prayers for the dead aren't really compatible with most Protestant thinking) it has re-emerged in a way via the marking of All Saints.

[@tylermendenhall8168]

For some reason I never thought of you as Swedish it may have to do with your ability to pronounce middle eastern and similar words which is very impressive to me being an American

[@theythemma]

i was born on all souls’ day (nov 2) 😋 happy best-time-of-the-year to everyone

[@claystephenson9742]

He posted this video on the tradition, he was thought form where he is form! That is cool!

[@MrTitoSon]

Day of the dead rituals and traditions vary across Mexico, with specific areas of Southern and Southeastern Mexico being the basis for what is nlw globally known as the Mexican day of the dead. Also, given Hollywood's recent attention to the celebration, traditions have inevitably got caught up in its hyperbole. Parades are held across Mexican cities, with people dressed as skulls and other characters associated with the celebration. As a kid, I remember it was mostly just a bit like what you celebrate over there in Sweden Filip: I would go with my grandmother to visit my gradfather's grave, and people would often pray and light candles to remember those who have passed away.

[@johannordkvist8247]

Allhelgondagen! Roligt att höra du är svensk efter att ha hört på dig i ngr månader. Jag vill hävda att Politik är en utveckling från Religion & Philosophy som oxå är mest påtaglig i de nordiska länderna sedan det 30-åriga kriget. Jag själv är i Hamburg. Tack för att du finns.

[@WK-47]

Props for the proper pronunciation of Samhain there, man! Great work as always, balanced yet detailed. Thanks as well for the reminder to visit Sweden someday. Y'all stay blessed!

[@mourya2318]

My favourite Saints are : *St. Expedite St. Rita of cascia St. Philomena St. Jude St. Anthony St. Joseph of Cupertino Our Lady* and much more 🥰✝🥀

[@Unlimi-PT]

Can you do a video about the multiple sects or branches of Sunni Islam? I hadn't heard about them until very recently but when I tried to look it up all I found was comparisons to shia and others.

[@thomasthgersen]

Hello from denmark 🙂 good video

[@masteroftheseas3744]

The Christian community in Syria and other neighboring countries has Saint Barbara’s Day on the 4th of December instead of Halloween. They do p much everything you’d expect in halloween (minus the jack o lanterns and maybe other stuff).

[@olegkirovskii2720]

I find the idea of having a holiday on spooky and cold early November a good thing. In Russia we have the Day of National Unity, which comes to replace the Day of October Revolution (believe it or not, the October Revolution happened on Nov 7th) But before the USSR, there was nothing of sorts celebrated in Russia. That puzzles me a lot.

[@qboxer]

Can you do a video on Angels in Christianity and other Abrahamic faiths?

[@Monkey-Boy2006]

This was really good, thank you! Could you please do a video on the Old Nordic equivalent of Samhain?

[@cronosvandust313]

As for ideas for future topics, I'd be interested in basics of tantrism - if you could explain its popularity. Deeper explanation of connection between pre-Christian gods and later Saints would also be a good idea, I think.

[@michelegianni389]

You Sweden are a step ahead. Peace.

[@wesselvis5629]

Hey man can you please do a video on nasheeds? I think nasheeds are beautiful and I want to know the history behind them

[@pawelski7536]

For your information, All Saints Day originates in old pre-christian tradition of celebrating Forfathers, in old Slavic culture. It is about paying a Trbute to those before us, who brought us to life. Halloween is just taking a piss out of it.

[@markadams7046]

Here in the U.S. it seems commemorate the dead on Memorial Day at or near the end of May. Though the day was to commemorate those who died in war, it seems to have also started to commemorate all who have died.

[@divan_dt]

My calendar says All Saints’ Day falls on a Friday this year. Was there another change since this video came out…

[@Baba.Chamkega]

Hello Filip. I am very intrigued by you. What do you do that keeps you so calm. Especially when you speak and makes you so convincing. The calmness is so ethereal that you can almost start your own cult. Lol!! But you're pretty amazing. If you ever happen to come to Australia please let your youtube followers know.

[@muhammadmahir4252]

can you make a video on Jalaluddin Rumi?

[@jojones4685]

I'm sure he will eventually. It seems like an inevitability at this point

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Ah, the curious relation between the secular holidays and the holy days. All Saints day isn't just a holiday in Europe, it's one of the major feasts for the Catholic church, so it is observed all around the world, but, if it is a holiday or not depends on the country's politics and current concordats/diplomatic treaties, and local policies/customs, which are subject to the faster changing human attitudes. In Chile, November 1° is a legal holiday, so people go to cemeteries on that day, like in Sweden. But customarily cemeteries are closed by night, so all the visits concentrate on that literal day. Only firefighters have the right and the honor to get funerals by night, and under the light of torches. The on fire ones. That's as unique a Chilean tradition as having full volunteer firefighters. They don't get paid to risk their lives fighting fires. On the other hand, October 31 was rather recently designated as a holiday to commemorate the evangelical and protestant churches in Chile (as all religious holidays were Catholic, they asked for one, and got that one). So, there is people who use the double holiday 31-1 to party... and children do copycat Halloween, not having the least idea about Samhain or any of those traditions; it's springtime here. Yep, that's mostly the American movies and TV influence, plus a local TV celebrity who became a mayor in a small town years ago and instituted Halloween as a celebration there. Before that, it was considered just a weird gringo thing, afterward it became... fashionable. The Catholic church, and evangelicals, were unhappy about the possibly demonic connections, so they have tried to influence the kids to dress as angels or other pleasant things. That process is still in process. Another video about the relationship between religions, politics, TV, and fashion?

[@ahouseofpomegranates4338]

as a finnish person this is very interesting because we don't celebrate anything around this time of year even though religion is fairly present in everyday life here

[@CallemJayNZ]

I've always wondered what All Saints Day is and why it is written on our calendar. November 1st is my birthday so I've always wondered how it was traditionally celebrated. My family were converted by St Columba in the Western Isles of Scotland to Christianity over a thousand years ago from Druidism. (My name Callem is actually the Gaelic version of Columba, though it should be spelt Callum, my parents wanted it to be different) We're still Catholic to this day

[@StRaphael-we9qn]

HI there, we do know all about history. Please mention which Pope decreed "ALL SAINTS DAY". Revised history at its finest.😮

[@Rudviken]

Missing the link to the Scandinavian pre-Christian traditions. Alvablot was celebrated at this time, a time to venerate ancestors. The Swedish word for Christmas ”Jul” was a holiday already predating the Christian holiday and we still call it that way (we don’t say ”Kristmässa”).

[@thomasflanagan8754]

The Irish word for November is Samhain.

[@ericsmith1801]

Now, in the midst of a pandemic, it is not just a casual holiday.

[@1ACL]

I feel that...

[@Quantumanandha]

Emotional attachments. Remembering the relationship.

[@weareallbornmad410]

Poland is one of the least secularised countries in Europe, and we also celebrate our dead on All Saints Day rather than the saints. I don't think "mashing together" in Sweden is because of post-Christianity. Probably influenced by it though.

[@acfatemi]

Minute 4:25, actually You are wrong! All saints’ day was originally celebrated in Rome on 13th of may. It is a very old feast and I think it has some connection with turning a pagan temple in Rome into a church. Later in a general reform of the liturgical calender the day for this feast was moved to the autumn. I don’t remember the details, sorry, but it might been on KZbin channel ”Dr Taylor Marshall” that Iheard this history explained. However, I have learned the same facts from other sources as well. Thus the original Feast of All Saints have absolutely nothing to do with irish pagan religion!

[@infinitysumitter5357]

There is a person Harsh madusudhan gupta. He suggested what about worshipping one of the pagan gods in smarta tradition of Hindus

[@mathildehb0076]

In Scandinavia, All saints day is All souls day (on first sunday of november), because of the lutheran christian church, who does not venerate saints. My family is post-christian and I am an eclectic pagan/wiccan, who celebrate Samhain, remembering my ancestors through a meditation-ritual that I have arranged on my own, for my solitary practice 😊

[@spiritualservicesgodbless7641]

THaNK YOU FOR THE VIDEO

[@London-Lad]

🎧 Podcasts? 🎧 Does this creator have a podcast on Google or can anybody recommend any good Podcasts along this or any other interesting genres? I'm very open and broad minded. Many thanks 🙏😉

[@helenbostock2350]

I like the way you think.

[@BrunoWiebelt]

well the Hindus have also a big holiday around this time I don't know very much about it maybe you could highlight it thx for the videos

[@creative-measure]

Some look at November eleventh as Samhain

[@AI-hx3fx]

Allhallowtide here is the third most important “internal migration” holiday after Holy Week and Christmas. That’s when we travel to our hometowns, and perform rituals alongside reunions, especially for Christmas and New Year. As in Sweden, All Saints’ Day is our preferred date for Mass and visit graves pray for the Faithful Departed. The Souling custom (“Pangángaluwà”), is almost dead (no pun intended), and Halloween parties are popular in cities. Even as we are a Catholic country, it ties in well with our precolonial religion that emphasises a connection to precolonial ancestor veneration, only now the Saints are “ancestors in Faith” added to our literal ancestors.

[@Infinite_voyager]

Being born around this time, when most holidays are reflecting about death, is kind of a weird experience. Big Scorpio energy

[@schorpioen7466]

I'm from 30 octobre. But all saints and all souls day are kind of obsolete in my country and Halloween is a new thing ... So i never experienced it like that

[@xkumanekox]

God, I love you Scandinavians, you guys are always so ideally secular, love it.

[@lukegehring5305]

Completely missed the root celebration of All Saints Day being on the first Sunday after Pentecost, where it remains in Orthodox Christianity (even the Orthodox of Sweden). And that a pope made the change to combat Samhain under the theory that on the eve of the feast everyone would be in church for Vespers and Matins, celebrating their Saint rather than being out celebrating Halloween. It didn't work. Oh and Martyrs are Saints, at least they are in Orthodoxy.

[@taliesinhaugh6679]

weird to focus so much on sweden and so little on mexico and the aztec/mayan imagery that dia de los muertos is built on. Wait are you swedish and never been to mexico is that why?

[@Max_Le_Groom]

Is a practitioner of religion supposed to give up the pursuits of the mind and physical brain like other body parts even thought it's counterintuitive to enriching it with studying the religion? Is a practitioner to use the religious text as an alternative to the brain like a spellbook?

[@JamieHumeCreative]

You can refer to Samhain in the present tense as it has never gone away.

[@salmanrana]

Make a video on nestorian christians and other sects who have not survived till day

[@antonizajkowski9698]

Me, sees a video about all saints day: Yay! Finally something about Poland! The video: #Sweden Me: ;-----------------------------;

[@altinmares8363]

Please post more videos about -Judaism and Torah -Idolatry -Revolutionary Monotheism -Monotheism and Polytheism

[@tcray8599]

Ah. So in Sweden the holiday "All Saints Day" is similar to what we celebrate as "Memorial Day" in America during the month of May.

[@emrmch]

Samhain is pronounced as one syllable - h’s didn’t exist in the Irish language until the mid 20th century and its purpose is to make the constonant before it silent. Also, please don’t refer to Ireland as ‘the British Isles’. It’s a term that has long been rejected by Ireland, and Halloween is an Irish festival.

[@francophone.]

What about Northern Ireland? Do other Celts celebrate it too? What about in Scotland, in Wales, in Cornwall and on the Isle of Man? I am not aware of any such thing existing in Brittany (where I live, but not where I was born), but it is possible.

[@fefelarue2948]

Thanks

[@1ACL]

All Saints Day is the day you stay home from Catholic school and eat Halloween candy until you are sick!

[@Nono-hk3is]

I can't believe you didn't mention Soul Cake Duck

[@sawyermcdonell7915]

love your videos, keep it up!!

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Our first record of the birthday of Sol Invictus is post our first record of the first christmas on the 25th. The former copied the later.

[@arabianseagull]

Amen!

[@anonymousunknown4925]

@Let's Talk Religion Oj!...Jag har sett så många av dina videor...men trots att din accent verkade bekant så visste jag först nu att du är svensk...hur som helst tack för ett utmärkt och mycket intressant innehåll i dina videor.

[@benghazi4216]

We love our religious rituals and traditions, just don't get too religious about it That sums up the Swedish relationship with religion in a nutshell

[@StRaphael-we9qn]

Hi there, what is post Christian. What about purgatory? Post modernism is more of an appropriate term.😮

[@helenbostock2350]

Interesting

[@uwefreyer1557]

Since Saints and their veneration is a Catholic practice of course the northern countries have not celebrated the Catholic Holidays since the reformation

[@RañoSarsešcingCracosséatPedrez]

Catholic Christians should openly celebrate Halloween along with All Hallows Day and All Souls Day because if you think about it, Halloween (or All Hallows Eve) is similar to Christmas Eve (The Day before Christmas). Halloween/All Hallows Eve (The Day before All Hallows) OCT. 31 All Saints Day/All Hallows Day (The Day of All Hallows) Nov. 1 All Souls Day (The Day after All Hallows) Nov. 2 Christmas Eve (The Day before Christmas) Dec. 24 Christmas/Christ's Mass (The Day of Christmas) Dec. 25 The Day after Christmas Dec. 26

[@darthbanana7]

insane video

[@NGC-catseye]

👍#600✨😺✨

[@varelion]

Thank you for your work. But as a religious studies sholar specialized in seasonal rites and festivals I got the impression that you surpress the contribution of older native (not pagan!) religions. Perhaps science of religion in Sweden is still more influenced by Christian belief since Sweden was the only country in which you could study science of religion and teach religion at schools. So, my first criticism comes at 3:31 when you say that the theory of placing the birth of Christ on the 25th of December because of the Festival of Sol Invictus is widely rejected by scholars today. I don't think so. Which scholars reject this theory? Christian scholars who find it embarassing that their birthday cult is based on an older cult? Fact is that the festival of Christ's birth was first placed on the 6th of January. And it is still the date of the birth of Christ for the Orthodox Church. The most likely reason which can not be rejected is the fact that on this specific date the mystery religion of Isis celebrated the peret, the emerging of the crops after the inundation of the Nile. One central part of the celebration was the ritual of the birth of Horus, the child of Isis and Osiris (Lord of the Nile water and fertility). During a nativity play the birth of Horus was announced, his statue carried out of the depth of the sanctuary to the light and the people and great joy arose. In Alexandria Isis became Kore/Persophone, the daughter of Demeter, who gave birth to Aion. By this cultural adoption Christianity took one of the most successful ritual element from the Isis mystery which helped to replace that religious rival. And it was a huge rival because these mysteries were spread in the entire Roman empire. Another huge religious rival for the young Christian religion were the Mithras mysteries. In these mysteries only mals members were allowed to participate. Nevertheless several Roman emperors were members of the mysteries. So they had the protection of some powerful men. The birthday of Mithras was celebrated on the 25th of december. It was also the birthday and celebration day of Sol Invictus. Both gods were seen as companions or even coessential. To conquer this important date and mystery the church also placed the date of Christ's birth on the same date. Now Christus wore the gloriole, the halo around his head as symbol of the everlasting sun as Sol or Mithras did before. Yes, there are 'scientific' approaches to deny this theory by claiming that the date of Maria's conception was on the 25th of march and 9 months after this, on the 25th of december, we then celebrate Christi natum. Basis for this theory should be the believe that a man dies on the annual day of his mother's conception. But in the 3rd century when these calculations were made, they celebrated the birth of Christ in late march, in april and even may. So, for me this statement of most sholars reject the Sol Invictus theory, it seems to me that you belong to the slightly religious influenced religious scientists who don't dig into the historical and cultural background because you avoid too much contamination with "paganism". The same with your remark to many rites at Samhain/Halloween. Have you checked if most rites came only after the christianization of All Hallows eve and Samhain to All Saints? I urgently recommend you to read the book 'Seasonal Feasts and Festivals' from E. O. James. Here you can see that rites of catering or giving gifts to the souls of the dead and to the spirits of animals and other beings during religious festivals is an older ritual complex than Christianity. You could see such rites during the Antesteries in Attika, Greece, when the first wine of the season was opened. And it is well-known that many rites went from the mediterranean world to the northern countries before and after the rise of Christianity. Indeed, Christianity on it's way to the top, adopted or swallowed many beliefs, rites, customs as a necessary strategy to become the most successful and later dominant religion in Europe and around the mediterranean sea.

[@albertohernandez8721]

Here are some scholars that my friend sent me that supposedly reject the History of Religions Theory aka the theory that states that Christians stole the Sol's birthday in favor of the Calculation theory or another theory: Dr. Martin Wallraff of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Dr. Hans Förster of the University of Vienna, Dr. Philipp Nothaft of the University of Oxford, Dr. Gerry Bowler of the University of Manitoba, Thomas Schmidt of Fairfield University, the late Dr. Thomas Talley, and Dr. Steven Hijmans of the University of Alberta

[@ChessPlayer78]

Good morning

[@02sweden]

I celebrate both Halloween (for my kids) and commemorate All saints day (Sweden).

[@keyofallworlds7549]

I had no idea you’re Swedish 🤣