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Riga, Latvia was the home of the first Christmas tree

First Christmas Tree

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"Latvia was the home of the first Christmas tree..."

Hardly. . . The Catholic Encyclopedia says: "Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church . . . the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt."

Around 3000 B.C. the king of Egypt was Osiris. When he died, his wife, Isis, told how the god king lived on as a spirit being. She claimed that an evergreen tree sprang from a dead tree stump, overnight, and she told how each year on the anniversary of his birth (December 25!), Osiris would visit the evergreen tree which symbolized eternal life, and he would leave gifts. Here are the origins of the Christmas tree and the date that eventually became known as Christmas 3000 years later! 1510 was over 4,000 years after the Osiris tradition was established.

Jeremiah 10
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

[Larry Lucido]

Riga, Latvia was the home of the first Christmas tree

Another coup by those Latvian Orthodox. Crafty bunch, there are!