What is the origin of Halloween and its colors?
What is the origin of Halloween? What comes to mind when you hear the word “Halloween” ? Pumpkins, witches, ghosts, bonfires, candy?
The colors that predominate in these festivities are orange and black. Why are these two colors used and not others?
Although the color orange is associated with autumn, there is another underlying reason. Black is related to death, terror, darkness, the dark and evil. A party that fits all those descriptions.
And many families celebrate this holiday on October 31.
Did you know that this party contains a very dark past and present? Do you really know the origin of this party?
What does the word halloween mean?
Halloween is also known by the name of All Hallow Even, which means “eve of All Saints’ Day”.
Where does Halloween come from? Where are you from?
Its origin dates back long before Christianity, to the time of the ancient Celts who inhabited Great Britain and Ireland.
During the full moon night closest to November 1, they celebrated the festival of Samhain, which means “End of Summer” . They believed that that night a veil was broken that divided the human world from the supernatural, where all the spirits walked the Earth.
Druids (Celtic priests) visited homes at night to ask for money as an offering to Satan.
They also believed that the dead returned to homes. Therefore, they put offerings of food and drinks to appease them.
Without knowing it, the children who ask for gifts from house to house are perpetuating this ritual. Jean Markale says the following in his book Halloween, histoire et traditions (Halloween: history and traditions): “By receiving something in their hands, children establish, on a symbolic level incomprehensible to them, a fraternal exchange between the visible world and the invisible. Hence, Halloween masquerades […] are, in fact, sacred ceremonies.”
The day of the dead around the world
The writer J. Garnier comments that the celebrations related to sufferings and death can be traced back to the ancient destruction in the Flood of all his human followers, as well as the hybrid children of the fallen angels . The various cultures of the world have festivities dedicated to the dead, and “all celebrate them on the same date on which, according to the account of Moses, the Deluge took place, namely, the seventeenth day of the second month, the month that practically corresponds with our November, or a date soon”. (The Worship of the Dead, by J. Garnier.)
The colors of Halloween
Fire and the beginning of autumn are represented by the color orange, which predominates in the Halloween festivities. For example, the Celts lit bonfires to protect the people and their homes, according to El Espanol .
The black associated with the occult, darkness and mystery reflects the nature of the Samhain festival, related to death, as we saw before.
Who else celebrates Halloween?
Halloween is an important day of satanic rites. ” It is a religious festival dedicated to the world of the dead in which satanists make sacrifices , and that witches celebrate in silence with meals or circles to pray for the dead,” commented an article in the USA Today newspaper. It also quoted the following words from Washington witch doctor Bryan Jordan: “ [The Christians] don’t realize it, but they’re celebrating our party with us. […] And we are pleased .”
It is a celebration that has been “Christianized”, like many others. Those who have read the Bible realize that “the dead no longer know anything at all.” Jesus said it is if they were asleep, unconscious ( Ecclesiastes 9:5 ; John 11:11 )
Source: Awake! Magazine from October 8, 2001
