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Sol Invictus crowned with a diadem of sun rays
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Translation and commentary by Cologero Salvo
In “Roma e il natale solare nella tradizione nordico-aria” (La Difesa della razza, 1940), Evola writes:
Very few suspect that the holidays [i.e., Catholic holy days] of today, in the century of skyscrapers, radio, great movements of the masses, are celebrated and continue . . . a remote tradition, bringing us back to the times when, almost at the dawn of humanity, the rising motion of the first Aryan civilization began; a tradition, in which, moreover, the great voice of those men is expressed rather than a particular belief.
A fact unknown to most must be first of all remembered, viz., that in its origins the date of Christmas and that of the beginning of the new year coincided, this date not being arbitrary, but connected to a precise cosmic event, namely, the Winter Solstice. The Winter Solstice falls in fact on December 25, which is the date of Christmas, subsequently known, but which in its origins had an essentially solar significance. That appears also in ancient Rome: the date of Christmas in ancient Rome was that of the rising of the Sun, the unconquered God, Natalis solis invicti. With that, as the day of the new sun — dies solis novi — in the imperial epoch brought the beginning of the new year, the new cycle. But this “solar birth” of Rome in the imperial period, in its turn, referred to a somewhat more remote tradition of Nordic-Aryan origin. Of the reset, Sol, the solar divinity, appeared already among the dii indigetes, that is, among the divinities of Roman origin, passed on from even more distant cycles of civilization. In reality, the solar religion of the imperial period, in a large measure had the meaning of a recovery and almost of a rebirth, unfortunately altered by various factors of decomposition, of a very old Aryan heritage.
First of all, let us clear up a misconception of the date December 25, which some have believed represents an error on Evola’s part. Julius Caesar, in his calendar reform of 46 BC, did indeed set the date for the Winter Solstice on December 25. Over the centuries, the error in the length of the Julian gradually moved the astronomical date backwards. When Pope Gregory reformed the Julian calendar, he began with a later year, corresponding to a Church council, rather than the original year of 46 BC. Thus, the Winter Solstice moved back to around December 21 instead of the original December 25. Thus, Evola was correct in his claim that the data of Christmas was set to coincide with the Winter Solstice.
Repoussé silver disc of Sol Invictus, Roman, 3rd century, found at Pessinus (British Museum)
In the article, Evola goes on to tie in the date with the birth of Mithras. He also points out that in ancient Rome, the “day of the sun” was also the “Lord’s day,” another tradition adopted by the Christians. He also ties this symbolism of the light with the prologue to John’s Gospel.
The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world
Evola concludes the article:
In the Aryan and Nordic tradition and in Rome itself, the same theme had an importance not only religious and mystical, but sacred, heroic and cosmic at the same time. It was the tradition of a people, to whom the same nature, the same great voice, which I wrote about , at that date, a tradition of a mystery of resurrection, of the birth or rebirth of a beginning not only of “light” and new life, but also of Imperium, in the highest and most august meaning of the word.
Source: http://www.gornahoor.net/?p=1318
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3 comments
Anyone who has not figured this out yet is really wearing blindfolds. So sorry, but the leftists figured this out decades ago and that is why they are winning now. Until we incorporate our pagan past whether or not you remain Christian is mute. That is where the energy is. What we have to fight is the athesism of the leftists. That is their weakness. They think they are reasonable, but their reason is based on nothing. They have fallen into the abyss and think it is reality. They will create more illusions and believe them.
To say Dec 25 is an adoption of the Christians is seriously disingenuous. The Romanized Christianity adopted Dec 25 as Christ’s birthday. I reply to the guy above, to say that the left has adopted pagan energies is nonsense. The left has adopted degenerates and lower races
Christian Paganism revolves around the Zodiac . The 12 . During its early period the Mithraic mysteries almost welded with the new forming religion.
Anthroposopy posits a Sun God that descended to the earth into the body of Jesus.
Elements that Norse myths share with Anthroposophy include:
◊ polytheism — legions of gods
◊ immaterial beings aside from the gods themselves (e.g., dwarfs, giants)
◊ contending bands of gods (in a manner of speaking, good gods and bad gods)
◊ gods who are imperfect, who may need to evolve or to be replaced
◊ a hierarchy of states of consciousness (Odin’s quest)
◊ a hierarchy of being (the world of the dwarfs is below the world of men; above the world of men is the world of the old gods; above the world of the old gods is the world of the new gods)
◊ evolution or progressive alteration (the old world of men will be replaced by a new world of men; the old gods and their world will be replaced by the new gods and their world)
◊ a creation story without a Creator [4]
◊ a Christlike god who dies but is reborn (Baldur, god of the dying spring, returns with each new spring; in Anthroposophy, Christ is the Sun God, crucified on Earth)
◊ an apocalypse that paves the way not for the Kingdom of God but for a new human realm under a new heaven
◊ the primacy of mankind (in the myths, the first man is born before the first gods; in Anthroposophy, humans are the original life form in the succession of incarnations of the solar system)
◊ celebration of Aryan qualities (in the myths, the first man is blond and the guardian of the spirit realm is the whitest god; in Anthroposophy, white Aryans are the most advanced race)
◊ a central search for gnostic or occult wisdom, e.g., the mystic runes (celestial script, Akashic Record)
◊ association of art with spiritual contact
◊ derogation of commerce and its gods
◊ dead humans who are still active, still able to be contacted
◊ a duality of forces hostile to mankind (in the myths, denizens of the land of fire and the land of fog; in Anthroposophy, chiefly, Ahriman and Lucifer, and their demonic hoards)
◊ the production of good out of evil
◊ magic, sorcery
◊ evil souls in animal form (wolf, serpent; in Anthroposophy, the animal forms of the “evil race”)
◊ divination, knowledge of the future
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