Didn't they use a deciduous tree? A palm tree to be precise? It's not very Christmas tree like unless the tree can resist winter. They're a borderline case. The Greeks were the first to do what I talked about, find a tree that could resist winter, and celebrate with it.
here in Norway it is the last 4 sundays before xmas. To be able to make that happen one of the Sundays have to be in November unless xmas eve falls on a Sunday. We celebrete xmas at the 24th not the 25th.
So for Norway it starts on the 4th Sunday in advance of xmas eve, actually I thought that was the same for all western churches.
Advent and advent calender aint really the same. Advent is the church thing for the waitng period while the calenders is for childrens.
I use to live in Arkansas and at least there they celebrated Advent the same way as in Norway
It seems some Roman Emperor made a new Winter Solstice festival on December 25th, which was then consequently converted into the day were Christians celebrated the birth of Jesus. There are also tales of semi-gnostics in Alexandria worshipping a virgin goddess Korê (I think), and in the same contry you find images of isis with baby-Horus which looks like Mary with Jesus but are far older...
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