Fact: Woman Were Equal To Men Before The Christian Takeover. Fact: Woman and Men Have The Same Number of Ribs. Deal with it!

 

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of a royal official named Hetpet on the Giza Plateau. The tomb dates back more than 4,300 years.

Credit: Egypt Antiquities Ministry

Per a February 3 (hey, that's today!) posting in Live Science, "The tomb of a woman named Hetpet, who became a senior official in the royal palace, has been discovered in a cemetery on the Giza Plateau, archaeologists from Egypt's antiquities ministry announced on this day in 2018.

"The tomb dates back over 4,300 years, to a time after the Giza Pyramids had been constructed. While Giza is most famous for its pyramids, the site also contains large cemeteries that archaeologists have been uncovering gradually for nearly two centuries. These tombs often hold the burials of elite members of ancient Egyptian society.

"The tomb also contains a shrine with a purification basin and places where incense and offerings could be held. One area inside the shrine may have held a statue of Hetpet, which is now missing, the archaeologists suspect. The archaeologists didn't find a mummy inside the tomb, but it's possible the mummy and statue were robbed in ancient times, something that commonly occurred in ancient Egypt."

According to Ancient Alien Theorist, well, we'll just have to wait and see what they say about this!  I for one believe it shows woman were more than just eye-candy (the Eye of Horus, get it?) back then.

I mean, consider the Cleopatra thing, there is no doubt woman played a bigger part in humanity than they would in years later when the Christian church took over and made woman the missing rib of man's existence; after which, strong woman like Hetpet would become "witches."  In more recent times, they became "bitches."  Today, they are, well, woman on the verge of equality.  That's a good thing. 

 

Also, this news just in:  Woman and Men have the same numbers of ribs!  It is a fact, and another hole in the creation story so please stop trying to teach this shit in secular schools morons.   Deal with it!

 

~~ Dr TV Boogie -- still radical after all these years.

Feb 2- 22 and Ground Hog Day: We’re All Esoteric.

 

Today is a magical day. It is February 2, 2022. That is the repeating numbers of 222.  If I may plagiarize, I mean quote The US Sun, today is part of the 222 sequence which will not return for another century after February 20, and February 22 of this month.  Esoterically speaking, this is a fantastic day.  According to numerology, this is a day charged with the energy of duality, partnership, relation and balance. The key lessons for this month on this 222 sequence day is to approach life with balance, compassion, and to seek partnership with others around you. 

What the US Sun article doesn’t tell you but we here at EsotericDaily.com will: dates that can be read the same forward and backwards are called “Palindrome Dates.”  You know 2-2-22 is 2-2-22 backwards or forwards. What is so special about today’s is it occurs on the 33rd of the year with 333 days left in the year.    If you got up at 2:02am this morning as I did, you were 100% in the Palindrome matrix. Today there are more opportunities to reach ultimate sync with the numbers at 2:02pm , 8:20pm  (20:20 military time). What I am saying here is this is a good day to buy 2 lottery tickets at $2.00 a ticket and let the numbers rule.  I am and will report my excellent winnings to you tomorrow. Stay tuned.

 

Also, don’t think you are the Esoteric type? Think again for today is Ground Hog day and in Punxsutawney PA, Punxsutawney Phil saw its shadow, and so millions of Americans are certain that there will be six more weeks of winter.  This annual practice is as  esoteric as reading tea leafs, bumps on a head,  or energy messages from rocks. So stop pretending you’re not one of us and join the mystic before the Aliens return and take us all to Shangri-La without you! 

~~ Sir Eso Terry, Esoteric Extraordinaire 

My Chinese New Years Guide For Idiots.

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 Okay, I know you've heard about it, the Chinese New Year which starts way after the Roman/Christian/Walmart New Year.  For my Pagan Brethren, the Chinese New Year is similar because it is Lunar, but instead of using the Winter's Solstice as a starting point, the Chinese use the second new moon after the winter solstice as it's starting point.  This year it is February  

 

 The Chinese New Year begins and is celebrated for two consecutive weeks until the full moon with a Spring Lantern Festival and Dragon Parade on the final day.  Not being Chinese, I've westernized it someone, but do enjoy it as much as the other major holidays in my life.  In fact, I put it up there with Halloween, Yule, and Litha.  

First, I get all my cleaning out of the way before the New Year day.  Cleaning the house is rids it of bad luck and past misfortunes.  Then I prepare my  hóngbāo or red envelopes with money to give as give for fortune to those I give them to.  I will be given out some to homeless people this year.  I figure they can use a little luck to combat the greedy capitalist foot chocking them.  Then I make sure I have red on a window or door facing all four winds to ward off the bad luck.  This practice comes from the ancient story of the evil beast Nián Shòu, who kept terrorizing a town until it saw a child wearing red and was never seen again.  So, red is believe to ward off bad luck.  It is the same believe that has businesses hanging those red scrolls with gold characters in their work places. The red wards off bad luck and the gold brings financial gains.

Until this year, I only had one lucky Chinese luck charm hanging in a window.  It is the one I keep over my kitchen window and dedicated to love.  Well, it worked and within a year of hanging it, I had my beautiful Chinese girlfriend cooking for me in that same kitchen. 

Coinkidink?  Maybe.  We well see, for this year I am hanging red in all window, with a red scroll in my business room.  

新年快乐

Xīnnián kuàilè (Happy New Years)

~~ Dr Eso Terry 

More on the Escaping Monkeys

 

January 29th, and I have a followup for you on the Escaped Lab Monkeys from last week.  Seems a Pennsylvania woman is now being treated for rabies from one of the escaping monkeys.  She had stopped to help the crash victems and looked in one of the crates and was hissed at by a scared monkey.  A few hours later she developed a cold and then pink eye. 

 

In this report the writer explains how the monkeys cages were filled with piss and shit.   And so I ask the question again: "Our We People or Monsters?"  

Yes, we are Monsters, and this is the Planet of the Monsters (Humans).  We experiment on monkeys who are scared shitless in a world they don't understand.  What really sucks is the monkey could have been you or me in another life.   There are those that believe we could have been lower lifeforms, but because of a good deed, like maybe we went against our instinct to eat a human we saw crying for dinner, and so we reincarnated into a higher life.  Now, here's the kicker, if this is true, by doing nothing about animal cruelty you might be reincarnated into a lower life.  If so, pray to the stars you aren't on this planet.  Planet of the Monsters!  

 

 

 

 

 

~~ Dr TV Boogie

Coming Soon: Stormy Daniels Is The New Esoteric Porn Star!  Go Stormy Go! -- With your clothes on, please. 

 

January 28th and proof George Bush Used School Children to Worshipped Satan on 9-11.

 

January 28th, ruled by the number 1 (2+8=10, 1+0+1).  The 1st card of the Major Arcana is The Magician, who symbolizes intellect, communication, information, as well as magic.

 

On this day in 1613, the Italian astronomer Galileo records a star that might have been the planet Neptune, but cloudy weather prevents him from further observations, and Neptune went unconfirmed until 1846.  Pieces were still without a solar planet until 1846, as Scorpios would be until the discovery of Pluto on February 18th, 1930.

On this day in 1921, Einstein theorizes that the universe can be measured.

 

In 1986 on this day, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida: 73 seconds later it explodes, killing the crew, which included high-school teacher Christa McAuliffe.   Millions of children were traumatized as they watched the live television feed from their classrooms.  Schoolrooms wouldn't be exposed to such a tragic event again until September 11th, 2001, when then President George W Bush read (poorly, and upside-down, I might ad) My Pet Goat to an elementary classroom after having been notified that the World Trade Towers in New York were under attach.  For those of us in the esoteric, it was obvious he had to complete the reading of the sacrificial goat for the dark powers he serves who were intentionally sabotaging the buildings for another profitable war.  Don't believe me?  Okay, then think about this:  while Bush was reading the book, the elementary school children were reciting the words:  "Kite Hit Steel, Plane Must."

What are the odds people?

9/11 is playing out while these kids are chanting five words and three of which are Hit, Steel, Plane!  Oh, and even more disturbing for those of us not drinking the Conservative Messiah Kool-Aid, Bush enters the room at 9:05am and leaves at 9:14am, so the words were being spoken at exactly 9:11am.  

See for yourself.  Here is the video of the event as it happened, commerical free from your friends at withinfilm.com:


 

Wishing you all bright light on this glorious day, which in the old Norse days, was known as the Festival of Fire, or Up-Helly-Aa.  It derived from the old Yuletide celebration of the triumph of the Sun over the darkness of winter and pays tribute to the old Viking gods and goddesses with the burning of a replica of a Viking ship.

Boys will be boys.

Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner (1997)THE PET GOAT

 
A girl got a pet goat. She liked to go running with her pet goat. She played with her pet goat in her house. She played with her pet goat in her yard. But the goat did some things that made the girl's dad mad. The goat ate things. He ate cans and he ate canes. He ate pans and he ate panes. He even ate capes and caps. One day her dad said, "That goat must go. He eats too many things." 

 

The girl said, "Dad, if you let the goat stay with us, I will see that he stops eating all those things." 

 

Her dads said, "We will try it." 

 

So the goat stayed and the girl made him stop eating cans and canes and caps and capes. But one day a car robber came to the girl's house. He saw a big red car near the house and said, "I will steal that car." He ran to the car and started to open the door. The girl and the goat were playing in the backyard. They did not see the car robber. 

 

THE GOAT STOPS THE ROBBER (next story in the series)
 

A girl had a pet goat. Her dad had a red car. A car robber was going to steal her dad's car. The girl and her goat were playing in the back yard. Just then the goat stopped playing. He saw the robber. He bent his head down and started to run for the robber.  The robber was bending over the seat of the car. The goat hit him with his sharp horns. The car robber went flying. The girl's dad ran out of the house. He grabbed the robber. "You were trying to steal my car," he yelled.
 

The girl said, "But my goat stopped him."
 

"Yes," her dad said. "That goat saved my car."
 

The car robber said, "Something hit me when I was trying to steal that car."
 

The girl said, "My goat hit you."
 

The girl hugged the goat. Her dad said, "That goat can stay with us. And he can eat all the cans and canes and caps and capes he wants." The girl smiled. Her goat smiled. Her dad smiled. But the car robber did not smile. He said, "I am sore."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 27th Things To Do

 Each year on the second new moon after the winter solstice the traditional Chinese New Year begins and is celebrated for two consecutive weeks until the full moon.   On the first day of the New Year, ancestral spirits are honored and houses are decorated with strips of red paper to attract good luck and ward off evil ghosts.  A Lantern Festival and Dragon Parade traditionally take place on the last night of the New Year celebration.

January 27th is also the annual Day of the Ishtar ceremony that takes place to honor the ancient Assyrian/Babylonian goddess of love, fertility, and battle.  Ishtar is identified with the ancient Phoenician goddess called Astarte. 

Lab Monkeys Killed on Highway: A Sign of The Times.

 

How can we go forward if we don’t know which way we are facing?

That questioned asked by John Lennon in song comes to mind today as I read the story on my news feed which reads “All 100 Lab Monkeys Accounted For After Several Escape Crash.”

Seems a truck towing a trailer load of 100 lab monkeys collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway on the 21st of January, and several monkeys escaped. 

If you’re like me you pictured in your mind 100 Disney Characters dancing for joy from their return to freedom.  Unfortunately, that’s not the true picture of events. These monkeys were Lab Monkeys.   That’s right, captives of the Planet of the Humans on their way to testing shampoos, diet pills, and whatever else someone is trying to make a buck on. Victims of greed. But you don’t care, your labradoodle has organic meat to eat and better health care than 99% of the world’s populace.  

Thank Jesus you’re not a lab monkey. Thank Jesus your labradoodle is too cute to eat or test on. Thank God Chic-Fil-A doesn’t consider dog a tasty Christian meal.

You stink!

~~ Dr TV Boogie - President of “Stop Using Monkeys to Test Your Fucking Shampoo.”

The container the monkeys are transported in! Talk about trauma. 

Other photos you may have missed:

How to BBQ Meat Loaf: R.I.P Meat Loaf

I have often spoke about coinkydinks, synchronicity, the power of suggestion, or whatever you want to call it.  In Esoteric Terms, these things are the gifts that keep giving.  In a past post (read it here) titled "Be Careful What You Say It Might Kill You." I told you about how Glen Miller, Mark Twain, and others foretold their deaths in idle chit-chat.  What I want to tell you about today though, boys and girls, is a coinkydink that just happened this week with the singer named Meat Loaf who just died.  It seems that on the day Meat Loaf died, Weber Grills put out a new recipe for "BBQ Meat Loaf" on their website, which they have recently come out and apologized for .  It was one of those crazy things like how on the day that the movie Donnie Darko was released,  we lost New York city towers to airplanes.  Yes, the film was released on 9-11.  In the film an aircraft engine falls out of the sky from nowhere with no reason and crashes through a bedroom ceiling.  They had to pull the movie that day and re-release it at a later date.  No chit.   

Getting back to Meat Loaf, he was from East Texas and had studied to be a minister until he decided to drop religion and become an over-weight rock star.  Another No Chit.  I saw him at a small concert in Dallas where I couldn't believe the energy.  I am still vibrating from it.

Anyway, here is the recipe because, well, I think Marvin Lee Aday, his real name, is laughing about it and would want it this way:

Meat Loaf

• In a large bowl using your hands, gently combine the meat loaf ingredients.
• Divide the meat loaf mixture in half and form into two loaves, each about 4 inches wide and 6 to 7 inches long. Place the loaves on a sheet pan. 
• Prepare the grill for indirect cooking over medium-low heat (about 350°F).
• In a small bowl mix the sauce ingredients. Set aside half of the sauce to serve with the meat loaf. Top each meat loaf with 3 tablespoons of the remaining sauce and coat thoroughly.
• Using a metal spatula, gently pick up each loaf from the sheet pan and place directly on the cooking grate. Grill the meat loaves over indirect medium-low heat, with the lid closed, until a thermometer inserted into the center of each loaf registers 155°F, 50 minutes to 1 hour. Remove the loaves from the grill and let rest 10 to 15 minutes. Once removed from the grill, the loaves will continue to cook, allowing them to reach the recommended 160°F for ground beef and pork. Cut the loaves into slices and serve with the reserved sauce....

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Also, don't forget to create something today for it is January 22, the Festival of the Muses.

That's right, on January 22nd in ancient times, was the Festival of the Muses.  Each year on this date, the invisible spirits that inspire and watch over all poets, musicians, and artists are honored and invoked with Goddess-inspired poetry, Pagan folk songs, and dancing.

And, to enlist the support of your muse, here are the nine daughters of Zeus to call upon:


1. Callipoe, epic poetry and eloguence

2. Clio, history

3. Erato, love poetry

4. Euterpe, lyric poetry and music

5. Polyhymnia, sacred poetry

6. Thalia, pastoral poetry and comedy

7. Melpomene, tragedy

8. Terpsichore, dancing

9. Urania, astronomy

Changing My Karma on a January 3rd.

 

 

In each life a little rain must fall, and I have seen my share.  Is rain bad?  No, not if you are a Buddhist like me for pain makes us stronger.  Haven't said this, as a Nichiren Buddhist I also know happiness in this lifetime is not only a possibility but also, a guaranty by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.   For my Pagan brother and sisters, don't be alarmed for you can bring your pagan gods to our alter and you may choose to keep them, or not.  It is a personal thing and will be revealed to you while chanting.   This brings me to today's post that is a result from this mornings prayers and chants and the truth that was revealed to me.  The truth is there was something holding me back from the financial rewards I am seeking.  It is the magic wand I made out of the branch of a willow tree that hung outside a previous condo I owned.  I loved that willow tree and knew it held a magic.  I had charged my wand using the spells I wrote about years ago in a post title "Spell Casting 101."  In this post I show you how to "charge" an object and this is what I did to my magic wand.  Has it worked?  I don't know, I really never tried it.  But in today's chanting for happiness and financial freedom it was shown to be a force competing with my Buddhist practice in changing my Financial Karma.  So today I will free it by tossing it in a field.  Stay tuned.  

Oh, and more about my Nichirin Buddhist practice can be found at SGI-USA.org. 

I'm chanting for you.

In other thoughts on this January 3rd that fit today's magical thoughts.  It was way back in 1977 on this day that Ronald Wayne thought it was a wise decision to leave Apple Computers before they incorporated because he thought it "too risky" to hang around.  And so his partner at the time, Steve Jobs paid Wayne $800.00 and terminated the relationship.  Wayne eventually lived in a trailer in Nevada collecting Social Security.

In 2013, Wayne told the U.K's Daily Mail, "If I had stayed with Apple and accepted the limitations on my philosophy of life I could have well ended up the richest man in the cemetery."

To which, I say, maybe so, but if you had chanted on the decision, you would have been a happy man either way.
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Jack Ruby et al

Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, died of cancer in a Dallas hospital on this day after haven spent four years in a jail cell overlooking Dealey Plaza adjacent to the infamous Book Depository where the alleged gun-shots came from.   Every day of his remaining life, Ruby could look out that window with the reminder to keep his mouth shut.   Which he did.  I only wonder what happened to his dogs?   I use to work at a music store in Dallas Texas and met an old piano turner who use to tune Jack Ruby's pianos and so would be in the empty restaurant on quiet afternoons when Ruby would come in and start slapping the cocktail waitresses around -- he was a real son-of-a-bitch that way.   My piano-turning friend told me: "He had these two dogs with him all the time.  I think he tweeted (had sex with) those dogs."

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Both kinds of explorers: Lewis and Clark.

Speaking of Dogs:

 I leave you on this blessed day with a journal entry from the beloved explorer who first wrote about these here United States back on their famous Explorer Expedition (warning, it will be disturbing to dog lovers):


January 3rd, 1806

One party, from necessity having been obliged to subsist some length of time on dogs, have now become extremely fond of their flesh.  It is worthy of remark that while we lived principally on the flesh of this animal, we were much more healthy, strong, and more fleshy than we had been since we left the buffalo country.  for my own part, I have become so perfectly reconciled to the dog that I think it an agreeable food and would prefer it vastly to lean venison or elk. 

                                                                                        -- Meriwether Lewis

New Years Day 2022 Waiting on the Coup

 

 

So it is new years 2022 and what have we done?  

 

Another year over and a new one spun

with miss-information and hate

 

last year at this time

we celebrated the defeat of Donald Trump

 

this year 

 

we fear his return

 

Has our country really come to this?

 

a country destroyed by fear, white lies, and God?

 

where once there was hope?

 

hope in people

 

hope in neighbors

 

hope in generations.

 

We are now divided by economics in the name of God, and baby killers

chalk outlines on a sidewalk, eye black crosses on a face, 

and save the planet, save the planet,

but first,

save the race!

In my lifetime I've watched us go from peace on earth and good will to all

to, "eat shit mother fucker, I'm taking what's mine,

 

that's all."

No one cares about getting along.  

No one has the energy to fight Fake News

and no one sees the whole

 

from their narrow point of views.

 

Yes, it's New Years Day, 2022.

 

waiting on the coup

waiting on the coup

~~ a Poem by Dr Eso Terry and his Traveling Band of Gypsies. 

 

The first day of January was dedicated by the ancient Romans to the god Janus (whom the month is named after.)  Janus possesses two identical faces looking in opposite directions: one to the past, and the other to the future.  He is a god of gates and doorways, and a deity associated with journeys and the beginning, and ending, of things.  

 

Ces't tout!

The Origins of Christmas: Satan and Coca-cola.

 

So it is Christmas.  Now, I love the "Peace on Earth and Good Will to...  All" as much as the next guy, but I also know this day has nothing to do with Jesus.  Now, if that's how you want to celebrate Christmas, so be it, I prefer to celebrate the inclusive Christmas without Jesus for its humanistic qualities.  Everyone knows Jesus wasn't born on December 25th.  Historian may argue about why this lie came to be, but nonetheless, all agree it is a lie.  December 25th was adopted by the Christian Church sometime in the 4th century.  Before that, December 25th was part of the Roman Saturnalia celebration that involved feasting, merry-making, and gift-giving.  But like everything else in history, i.e., Football, Beer, and Elvis, Christians change things to fit their beliefs instead of letting things be as they are.  Blasphemy?  Maybe.  Truth is, Christmas is nothing but Blasphemy.  

The origins of Christmas began with Odin, who was the god of intoxicating drink and ecstasy, as well as the god of winter death. Because the Feast of Saturnalia dealt with all those things, he naturally became the most popular god of Saturnalia. 

 

Odin was a tall, old man that had a long white beard and carried a spear.  Odin traveled around the world on a WHITE HORSE that had eight legs. This is where the eight reindeer came from. With Santa, originally there were eight reindeer. Rudolph was added later in modern times.

In virtually every version of Claus, he carried along with him a dark helper.  Eventually, these became the elves.  Originally, however, they were a demon looking helper that stood next to Claus with a horrid red tongue hanging from its mouths and it was called Krampus.  If the children weren’t good, Krampus  would beat the children.  So, the good guy or Savior, Odin who eventually became St. Nicholas, would come and give you gifts if you were good. If you were bad, Krampus disciplined you.  

The picture upbove shows the naughty children being carried away by a Krampus, who is a combination of a human and goat. We see this all throughout history, a human mixed with a goat. The picture on the left is a modern day picture of a festival in Germany where they continue to do this celebration and bring out Krampus or Santa’s helpers to this day. 

St. Nicholas and his demons are still celebrated in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, and more. Every time you would see St. Nicholas he would be accompanied by his bells. They use to have bells that would hang from their necks. You would hear the bells as they announced to the next town that they were coming.  This is where we get the references to the bells of Christmas.

How did the progression of Odin to Santa Claus happen? Well, by the 1500’s in Holland, St. Nicholas became Sinterklaas; a kind and wise old man with a white beard, white dress, red cloak, a crosier and riding the skies and roofs of the houses on his white horse, accompanied by his Black Jacks, leaving gifts for people under his sacred tree, the fir tree. He would visit you on his birthday (December 25th), and give you gifts if you had been good or if you had been bad, his Black Jacks would beat you.

By the 1700’s a Dutchman immigrated to North America and brought his SinterClaus with him. The English dialect was then changed to “Santa Claus.”

In 1930 a designer for Coca-Cola Company was trying to get people to buy their drink in the winter time. They took their company colors of red and white, borrowed the Sinterklaas story, changed a few things and out came the modern Santa Claus complete with reindeer and elves. The 1900 designer borrowed a picture from the 1800’s, modernized, added the colors, and out came the Coca-Cola Santa Claus today complete with the long white beard, chubby cheeks, and red and white suit.

IN THE 1970’S THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL FORMALLY STATED THAT NO ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP BY THE NAME OF NICHOLAS EVER EXISTED!

They down graded his saint hood because there was evidence that was presented to the Vatican that he never even existed. Vatican further confessed that the legends contributed to this “saint” had no Christian origin, and probably came from pagan traditions!

The evidence showed this saint was made up and connected to the sun god worship of Odin but had been Christianized and a saint was made out of him. Eventually, the colors got changed, the elves came into the picture and they went from being evil to cute little guys that make toys which is another American modernization.

Now you know the real origins of Christmas: 

Happy Xmas. 

 

Comparing Druids and Native Americans This Christmas

 

So, it is a fact that the Christmas we celebrate today begun with the Druids, and so let's have a look at the Druids.  First of all, most of the historical facts we have about the Druids are bull crap because they were written by the Greeks and Romans who were extremely hostile to the Celtic people, and so reading those accounts of the Druid people written in the history books is like reading Davy Crockett's writings to understand the Native Americans.  

 "We shot them like dogs," Crockett said after he had slaughtered 186 men, woman, and children in the Creek War.  

The Romans confiscated the lives of the Druid people much as the European Settlers confiscated the lives of Native Americans. In both cases a spiritually dead group of people took over a spiritually alive people.  The Romans were materialistic, the Druids spiritual. The American Settlers were greedy-land grabbers, the Native people, spiritual.  For the Romans and Americans Settlers the State was a monolithic structure spread over territories deliberately organized into a hierarchy.  With the Druids and Native Americans the State was a freely consented moral order with an entirely mythical central idea.  The Romans and American Settlers based their law on the private ownership of land, with property rights entirely vested in the head of the family; the Druids and Native Americans considered ownership COLLECTIVE.  The Romans and American Settlers looked upon women as bearers of children and objects of pleasure, while the Druids and Native Americans included women in their political and religious life.  Is it any wonder that the spiritual peoples would have to be "Christianized" in the name of God, or slaughtered.  

That's right, Capitalized: the gift that keeps giving.  

And, least we forget, here is the Druid roots of Christmas:

The roots of the Christmas traditions that we recognize today can be traced back to pre-Christian celebrations of the Winter solstice. The solstice is the twice yearly event when the sun appears to be at its highest or lowest point above the horizon. In the northern hemisphere the Winter solstice usually occurs annually between December 20 and December 23.

The Winter solstice was seen by the ancient Celts as one of the most significant times of the year. The Neolithic monuments of Newgrange in Éire, Maes Howe in Orkney, Scotland and Bryn Celli Ddu in Ynys Môn, Wales are examples of burial chambers scattered throughout the Celtic nations constructed to capture the full impact of sun’s rays during the solstices.

Druids, the priestly class in ancient Celtic society, celebrated the festival of Alban Arthuan (also known as Yule) at the time of the Winter solstice.  It was on this day that they ceremonially gathered mistletoe from oak trees.  A practice described in the writings of Roman historian Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus AD 23 – August 25, AD 79).

The name Christmas is from the Mass of Christ (Christ-Mass).  The actual date of the birth of Jesus is not given in the Bible.  The spread of Christianity during the first millennium (January 1st AD to December 1000 AD of the Julian calendar) was aided by the new religion adapting to the ceremonies and traditions of the existing religions.  At times the early Christians also adopted existing deities to ease the transition from old beliefs to new ones, as is thought to be the case with Brigid the Celtic fertility goddess who became known to Christians as Saint Brigid.

So when celebrating Christmas the traditional trappings that go with this festive season have roots that go far back into Celtic history.  The Mistletoe gathered by the Druids for its magical and health giving properties.  The Yule log burnt by the Celts to counter the darkness of mid-Winter when they thought the sun stood still for twelve days and to bring good luck.  The Holly and Ivy; evergreens that Celts saw as important to keep evil spirits at bay. The Tree decorated with symbols of solar objects and gifts to Celtic gods and goddesses.