Customs pagan

Old as background, in the fourth century, the Church turned into the main building of its structure and this mythical, of course, impinged on all their celebrations. The council of Nicea (325), Emperor Constantine, decreed follows the feast of Easter should be held on the first Sunday after the full moon following the spring eguinoccio.

Thus, the Christian Easter fell to unite and represent the pagan traditions, in all the usual pre-Christian cultures gue around eguinoccio spring, celebrating the resurrection of a young sun god, a symbol of the rebirth of life in Nature after death and decay winter.

Shortly thereafter, between the years 354 and 360, was set as the date of the birth of Jesus on the night of 24 to December 25, the day the gue Romans celebrated the Natalis Invicti Solis, the birth of the invincible sun-worship very popular and widespread , Often custom in the god Mithras, the gue Christians were unable to overcome or outlaw until then and, of course, the same date in the contemporary gue people celebrate the arrival of winter solstice.

With this maneuver is to transfer all the attributes mythical Jesus Christ gue had characterized Mitra and, earlier, Dionysos and other young gods. The saturnales, as already mentioned, were the model festive gue gave birth to Christmas.