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MAGAZINE - DECEMBER 2012
ong before the advent
of Christianity, plants and trees that
remained green all year had a special
meaning for people in the winter. Just
as people today decorate their homes
during the festive season with pine,
spruce, and fir trees, ancient peoples
hung evergreen boughs over their doors
and windows. In many countries, it was
believed that evergreens would keep
away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and
illness.
In the Northern hemisphere, the shortest
day and longest night of the year falls
on December 21 or December 22
and is called the winter solstice. Many
ancient people believed that the sun
was a god and that winter came every
year because the sun god had become
sick and weak. They celebrated the
solstice because it meant that at last
the sun god would begin to get well.
Evergreen boughs reminded them of all
the green plants that would grow again
when the sun god was strong and sum-
mer would return.
King Tut never saw a Christmas tree,
but he would have understood the tradi-
tion which traces back long before the
first Christmas.
The Egyptians were part of a long line
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