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QUOTE"Zandar, post: 5086311, member: 323691"]all this reminds me, hollywood was a thing for magic back many centuries ago,
thats where we got holidays from.
Traditionally, the Holly tree is highly sacred in Celtic mythology and symbolises
peace and goodwill. Due to its resistance to lightning, it is associated with the Celtic and Norse
gods of thunder,
Taranis and Thor, and so was planted near dwellings to protect people from lightning strikes.Oct 5, 2020
Holly: Folklore, Healing & Magical Uses
Magickal Spot
https://magickalspot.com › holly
Nov 27, 2019 —
Holly can be used in consecration and in
spells for material gain, physical revenge, beauty, protection (esp. against lightening), luck and ...[/
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Zandar,
You do know that (/\) is a Pagan/witchcraft website don't you?..
.."Magical & Witchipedia".
Remember that Satan likes to take credit for everything if it benefits him. That's why you'll find a lot of satanic credit attributed to Biblical Christianity by the pseudo-christian cults. They have no trouble blaspheming the holy Name of God as they pepper throughout this Christian site. Very few ever point those out, so many minds are defiled by them.
You said" that is where we got holidays from."
I disagree with that on the Basis of the Bible and also the etymology of the word.
I have to speak out for sake of the many who read these forums. Most will never take time to investigate and who has time to even read all the threads anyway? There are many claims on the forums about the names of God attributed to Satanic false deities and other blasphemous claims that should be corrected, but rarely are. Too many actually believe those lies without due diligence.
None of us know it all and that's why I read daily. I have been wrong on many things, but trying to continue learning the truth. When you made your claim to a connection with magic and holly wood, that's one thing. When you claim that is where we get holidays from, I am going to the Bible first to obey the command to test all things and also to emulate the noble Bereans.
God is Holy and His Name is Holy. Too many forget this fact.
There ARE pagan roots to many things in all cultures of the world including the languages, calendars and customs. That is because the entire world was largely polytheistic throughout history and people incorporate usage of daily communication in life. Languages evolved with all sorts of influences. That doesn't mean the use of language is a moral precept of evil if it had influence from people who were not believers in the true God. However the Bible lists
holy days to be observed by God's people who followed Moses until Christ's crucifixion. They were to be observed in keeping the Old Testament Laws for much of history. . They were a shadow of Christ who fulfilled all. They were ordained by the Lord and fulfilled by the Lord. In English they are called holidays or
holy days.
I read your link to the witchcraft site. Their claim is very suspect as those of many cults.
I am not convinced after an half hour of searching for the etymology of the term "holiday" or the term "holy" from various sources.
Without going to the original commands which are obvious in the third book of the Bible, I'll post God's updated command.
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14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days,
17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."
Colossians 2
Concerning the word origins of holiday and the word holy is the following.
From Online Entomology Dictionary:
Etymology of the word
Holiday, Holy, Hollywood, and the holly tree.
holiday (n.)
1500s, earlier haliday (c. 1200), from Old English haligdæg "holy day, consecrated day, religious anniversary; Sabbath," from halig "holy" (see
holy) + dæg "day" (see
day); in 14c. meaning both "religious festival" and "day of exemption from labor and recreation," but pronunciation and sense diverged 16c. As an adjective mid-15c. Happy holidays is from mid-19c., in British English, with reference to summer vacation from school. As a Christmastime greeting, by 1937, American English, in Camel cigarette ads.
holy (adj.)
Old English halig "holy, consecrated, sacred; godly; ecclesiastical," from Proto-Germanic *hailaga- (source also of Old Norse heilagr, Danish hellig, Old Frisian helich "holy," Old Saxon helag, Middle Dutch helich, Old High German heilag, German heilig, Gothic hailags "holy"), from PIE *kailo- "whole, uninjured" (see
health). Adopted at conversion for Latin sanctus.
The primary (pre-Christian) meaning is not possible to determine, but probably it was "that must be preserved whole or intact, that cannot be transgressed or violated," and connected with Old English hal (see
health) and Old High German heil "health, happiness, good luck" (source of the German salutation Heil).
Holy water was in Old English.
Hollywood (n.)
region near Los Angeles, named for the ranch that once stood there, which was named by Deida Wilcox, wife of Horace H. Wilcox, Kansas City real estate man, when they moved there in 1886. They began selling off building lots in 1891 and the village was incorporated in 1903. Once a quiet farming community, by 1910 barns were being converted into movie studios. The name was used generically for "American movies" from 1926, three years after the giant sign was set up, originally reading Hollywoodland, another real estate developer's promotion.
holly (n.)
evergreen shrub especially used for decoration at Christmas, mid-15c., earlier holin (mid-12c.), shortening of Old English holegn, holen "holly," from Proto-Germanic *hulin- (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German hulis, Old Norse hulfr, Middle Dutch huls, Dutch, German hulst "holly"), cognate with Middle Irish cuilenn, Welsh celyn, Gaelic cuilionn "holly," probably all from PIE root *kel- (5) "to prick" (source also of Old Church Slavonic kolja "to prick," Russian kolos "ear of corn"), in reference to its leaves. French houx "holly" is from Frankish *huls or some other Germanic source.
also from
mid-15c.