Ancient History Of Christmas Tree Altai Hypothesis
12 July 2008
It is well known, that tradition of Christmas tree was in use at
Germany of XVII century. But, a little known nowadays, how, when and
why it appeared at Germany.
One possible hypothesis is closely related with
http://www.shakespeare.uk.net/altai_hypothesis.html
Altai Hypothesis
Of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans
Indo - European civilizations.
Some historians argue that Christianity in its European form, as well as
tradition of New Year and Christmas celebration has easy recognizable
predecessor - believes of people in
http://www.adji.ru/main_en.html
Great Steppes and Altai region.
They used runic alphabets, almost the same as runic alphabets of
Europe, they had a tradition to celebrate New Year at winter, and it
was birthday of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulgan
Ulgan deity - creator of universe. The totem of this deity is birch tree or fur-tree.
Those beliefs are part of
http://www.answers.com/Tengriism?nafid=3
Tengriism
- ancient believe, which still practiced at Siberia in the form of Shamanism.
http://www.answers.com/topic/huns
Hunns,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars
Khazars,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians
Scythians,
and point of view exist, even
http://dienekes.50webs.com/blog/archives/000425.html
Native Americans
practiced some forms of Tengriism.
But, according modern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman
Shamans of Siberia,
who are ancestors of Tengriism, tree is symbol of eternity, it is
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