The History of Christmas 

Great video, you gained a new subscriber! One thing: Spain celebrates the Three Kings Day (Jan 7th) where they give gifts as well, but this is addition to christmas with santa claus on christmas. Side note: Some countries in latin america have 'el niño dios' or baby jesus bring the gifts instead of santa, but this is being replaced by santa more and more.

Fantastic research. Thank you so much for making this.

Actually, in Ukraine - Saint Nicholas is the guy who brings gifts to kids at night on December 19th. This is a very popular tradition, all kids in Ukraine are waiting this day the whole year. I'm an adult, but I'm still waiting this day every year :) Grandfather Frost was "invented" in the Soviet Union and present till these days in Russia, Belarus, and some other post-soviet countries.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السلام على من ٱتبع الهدى Just to summarize, christmas is actually a pagan festival that was repackaged to appeal to newly converted pagans, also noted are similarities between the concept of a son of God and trinity in earlier pagan religions during the time of christianity as well the development of the trinity in christian theology itself after the nicean creed, before which such a pagan belief was seen as heretic

this video totally skip the part how this was an originally a pagan holiday started by the Romans....why don't you people search the true origin of xmas..

So the pagans celebrated the solstice on the 21st December, the festival was kind of like a bookend to the harvest festival - anything that was left over by now would either have to be eaten or preserved before the bitterest of winter settles in January - which then didn't have a name because it was so cold and dark... The tradition of feasting came from this. Many vegetables had to be eaten, and the rich would get the last of the game before game season was closed to allow the birds to repopulate. This brought the tradition of feasting, not in the name of Christ, but you can believe that if you so wish. The pagans would go wassailing, this normally involved a lot of alcohol, namely cider, which they would share with the trees in the hope of a fruitful new season. There was usually some gift giving too, but later on in the tradition. And this is why we drink a lot over Christmas. The pagans in England would welcome, who would later be knows as Father Christmas. He was jolly and great, a wreath crown adorned with holly and ivy, and a huge green winter jacket. He was the ghost of Christmas past in A Christmas Carol. He represented the whole purpose of the festivities - a celebration of life. Thanking nature for the wealth and prosperity of the months gone by, and praying and thanking for more to come. Together with family and friends, the Solstice period was a magical one and lead to many of today's traditions in England. I'm not Christian, but I use the word "Christmas" synonymous to this time of year, and I don't think other religions should be offended because you call it Christmas (see, in the UK, Holidays are in the summer... what many would call a vacation).

Great video, perfect in length and good focus on essential facts. Happy holidays to you!

Great video as always

Wasn't Dec 25th a largely celebrated pagan holiday in Rome, and so when Constantine wanted to Christianize Rome, he moved Christmas from the original Jan 6th to Dec 25th in order to maintain the time of already large celebrations in Rome, but instead celebrate Christmas?

The Dutch celebrate christmas on the 25 and the 26. We also still celebrate Sinterklaas (which is different from christmas) on the 5th.

Fun Fact: Saint Nicholas was born in the place that is in Türkiye now.

0:35 Let the flame war begin...

Advent calenders here in Belgium and Netherlands here too but only ever seen them with chocolate inside.

VERY GOOD VIDEO.. u open my eyes very CLEAR to me that christmas is a day that our great 1 st pope is decided just based on Saturnalia and Winter solstice.. very wise person... u got a new subscriber

Thankyou for emphasizing the meaning of X in X-mas ❤👍

I live in Ethiopia for work. I’m from Ghana originally. Ethiopia Orthodox: Celebrate Christmas (Gena) on January 7. -They do not exchange gifts. -They actually go to church the night before. -They do not recognize nor utilize Santa Claus. -The holiday is entirely religious not commercial like in the West. This video is from a Eurocentric history, not the way Christmas has been historically celebrated in Ethiopia for 2,000 years.

No mention of the pagan roots? At least the solstice was mentioned, but not only in passing, but portrait as "close". The winter solstice marks the lowest point of the sun and a perceived pause of the sun as it stays in the same spot for 3 days. Those three days coincide with the supposed resurrection of this jesus character, so it should not have been understated. Still a good vid.

"Santa's outfit is believed to have been inspired by the Bishop of Myra in the 4th Century... long before the soft drinks market realised its potential"

just discovered your channel, love your videos. binge-watched all of them ahah gj!

You're doing all that animating yourself? Impressive work

nice video man

Happy Christmas! Have a great new year as well.

I've heard that Jesus actual birthday is in September... but yes I agree with you about our culture celebrating the birth of Jesus because it is the darkest or shortest day of the year in December ,,🤔.... Merry Xmas 🎄 God bless you in the name of Jesus ! 😁 🙏🏽

Great vid dude. rly liked it and u should make a ww2 vid mapped

Great video! just discovered your canal, I hope you get more subs ;)

when mentioning Scandinavia, you forgot to mark Denmark.

finally someone explain the x on xmas is not antichrist!

do "Understanding the Situation in Israel using Maps" please

russia and other post soviet republics also have grandpa frost. he usualy brings gifts on new years night and they are open in the morning. the new years hollyday was a soviet substetute for christmas and is still widly celabreated today by post soviet peoples.

Christmas has indeed been diluted by other traditions. But the main message that Christians celebrate is that the Son of God came into the world, He was born, and came to save us from our corrupt human natures and give us new life so that we could love like God created us to.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy Christmas🌝

We have advent calenders in Denmark too

One of three lies parent tel children the other two are tooth faries and easter bunnies.

Advent calendars aren't everywhere?

happy christmas😉

That coca cola thing never heard before ...tq for superb content

it was a really good video but when you talked about both children and adults having calendars you forgot everything about Denmark it's a pretty big tradition for us Danes but as I said it's a really good video

i didn't know it was only us that used advent calenders

after i watched the ukranian civil war video i subscribed, you really make fact checked and well written videos.

Was worried this video would be a Christmas bashing!

Celebrating it on the 7th of january would be so much better! Then we might get a white Christmas every year. It never snows in december here :( Also, Sinterklaas is spelled with a 'k' in Dutch. Not that anyone watching this video would care :p

Are there any Egyptian Coptic Orthodox in the comments? Please shed light on how Christmas is celebrated in Egypt.

Bengali was there in the intro!😃😃

You are very talented, and I will not be surprised if your channel hit some couple of hundreds thousands subscribers within the next few months. Please, when you do hit enough subs that your channel can be deemed "big", make videos about the Federal Reserve. Maybe even a mini-series. Use your talent to educate the masses! :)

Isn't Santa a Spanish name?

Great vids, any interest in making a new Syria and Iraq mapped situation?

Christmas 2019🎄

2:58 you didn't include Denmark ;(

Jeremiah 10:3 if you like Christmas 🌲's.

Forgot about Mariah Carey 😂

Sun of god

christmas is a pagan holiday. And jesus never existed since he is a plagiarized version of the egyptian sun god.

Trigged as fuck, the netherlands and belgium also have advent calenders, and Sinterclaas is actually spelt as SInterklaas. But for really, really good video, keep up the good work.

i dont think this is the true history of Christmas,,..i think it's interesting facts

Friends rather than arguing on any topic ... We should more focus on 'scripture of holy Bible's ... personally I don't see a point to celebrate Christmas very foremost reason is 25 Dec( date ) is not mentioned in the Bible nor Bible says to celebrate Jesus birth day. Secondly, 25 Dec was Roman festival of Saturnalia to honour Roman god ' Saturn'.

Christ in Greek is pronounced otherwise

I am an german

The Orthodox give presents on New Year's day. St Basil's day. I guess the traditions are cultural practices that have evolved differently around the world. What I don't like is the crass commercialization that has resulted nowdays.

you did a mistake whit the Arabic words

Честита Коледа!

god jul:)

the hebrew in the start is in miror writing it need to be חג מולד שמח

plot twist - there is no god

This channel is Russian propaganda.

Hey Society of Geeks, with all due respect to your research, these theories are well known by Us (the Christians). So, in brief, I did not learn anything new from your video. When we adopted the various celebrations of Xmas, Christians have replaced all the pagan ideas/theories by the BEST EVER: JESUS CHRIST, our ONLY LORD and GOD. It does NOT matter what the origin was. It does not matter if he was born on the 25th of December or not. What matters is that we have replaced them all with OUR FAITH IN OUR ONLY LORD AND GOD JESUS CHRIST THE GREATEST EVER. Atheists, Jews, muslims, Agnostics, Leftist/communists, satanics (incl. yr boss Satan)- and whoever hates JESUS CHRIST and the Christians- will never win on the Church of Jesus Christ. The reason is, and as declared by our ONLY LORD and GOD Jesus Christ, the GREATEST EVER, the gates of Hell will never prevail on our Church. He is your GOD/Lord whether you like it or not.Therefore, if the goal of this video is to weaken our faith in our ONLY LORD/GOD Jesus Christ The Greatest Ever, MAY ALL THE GLORIES BE TO HIS HOLLY NAME. I am afraid to tell you that you have FAILED MISERABLY. However, if your goal is only to show the origin of some of our traditions, Then it is okay with us and we already know all of these theories.HAVE A VERY HAPPY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL . Always remember that JESUS is the reason for the season. May our ONLY LORD and GOD JESUS CHRIST, the GREATEST EVER, bless You and Protect you, your Families, your Friends, your Loved Ones for ever..AMEN

Well, that was about 1/10 of the whole story. Downvoted.