The pagan new year

      From Christmas to New Year

New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome.

1 January 2012 the Pagan New Year; The Romans dedicated this day to Janus, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. After Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 46 BC and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate voted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC in honour of his life and his institution of the new rationalised calendar. The month originally owes its name to the deity Janus, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward.  

                       As the head of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar
 

This suggests that New Year's celebrations are founded on pagan traditions.

New Year's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                                    The pagan god of the times

                      
                                 From the calendar of Babylon!

                                     The Babylonian Star Calendar

A fragment of a circular star calendar from the library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh;  

The two flat sides of the disc are inscribed in Assyrian Cuneiform with names of the months, names and figures of key stars and measurements of degrees.

                                       The Ancient Celebration 

The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, Babylonians celebrated the beginning of a new year on what is now March 23, although they themselves had no written calendar.

The Romans continued to observe the New Year on March 25, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.

In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the New Year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again established January 1 as the New Year.

 Revelers watch pop-singer Lady Gaga perform in Times Square ion New Years Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in New York. Some revelers, wearing party hats and "2012" glasses, began camping out Saturday morning, as workers readied bags stuffed with hundreds of balloons and technicians put colored filters on klieg lights.

                                          The Babylonian Star! 

                                

                                                     Set apart!

                                                                 Shalom..