�Gawain and the Green Knight� Paralleling the Bible �This poem is truly Christian, not the unformed Christianity of Beowulf. The season for the story's setting is Christmas, the biggest ritual in the Christian world. Of course, the Bible does not give us Jesus' birthday. The early Christian Church trying to make Christianity an easy to follow religion chose Dec. 25 because the pagan people (fertility-worshipping) were used to having a major celebration about this time around the Winter Solstice (Dec. 22, the shortest day of the year). The Solstices (the Summer Solstice is June 22, the longest day of the year) and the Equinoxes were important to European countries because people marked the seasons of the year this way so they would know when to plant and harvest. The early Church fathers more or less say, You can still have your winter holiday, but we're going to call it Christmas, the celebration of the birth of your new god, Jesus. The same thing happened at Easter, the celebration of the Spring Equinox became the celebration of the Resurrection. This superimposing the new religi....

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