Sunday Celebration: Birth of The Light, Christmas & its Ancient Persian Origins

CCL is inside The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center, 938 The Alameda. Park in the parking lot and enter through the gate in the back. Do not go to the front door.

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Birth of The Light, Christmas and its Ancient Persian Origins. by Scholar and Ethnologist, Dr. Farima Berenji. Lecture and Sacred Dance Performance.
We have always known of Christmas on December 25th, with a traditional decorated tree, candles, and gifts. Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ yet its rituals and traditions far precede that time. Unquestionably, our ancestors adopted the rituals from an ancient Iranian pagan religion known as Mithraism, a form of nature worship based on the Sun God/Goddess Mithra.
On the darkest night of the year (December 20 or 21) legend has it Mithra gives birth to “Light” causing each day thereafter to grow longer until the Summer solstice. In this lecture learn of the remarkable parallels between ancient Mithraism beliefs, rituals, and symbols to those of Christmas today.
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