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HeinousActsZX
#602081
9 months ago
If you say so...
Jackarunda
#602082
9 months ago
+1 Internet if they refer to it as Christmas and not something like Secularrific Non-Declarational Winter Solstice Holiday Celebration Festival
Anonymous
#602096
9 months ago
Duh. G3 had Christmas, and they have a Halloween equivalent, so...
Fuzzy_Logic
#602105
9 months ago
OH GOD THE MAYOR'S COSTUME
Anonymous
#602109
9 months ago
+2 internets if they choose some other holiday just to troll christians.

Seriously though, why the heck would they have a "christ"mas in equestria?
Takanuva
#602119
9 months ago
What episode was this?
Anonymous
#602120
9 months ago
Better question, if Jesus were ponified, what would his cutie mark be? A cross?

...Actually, yes, that makes sense.
Not because the cross is the symbol of Christianity,
but because his purpose and intention was to die for our sins.
Or something like that.
Anonymous
#602122
9 months ago
^Celestia's son's name was Jeezy McChristerson.
Fantastic
#602123
9 months ago
How much does regular Christmas actually have to do with Jesus?
Anonymous
#602125
9 months ago
They got the bells wrong and probably use an incorrect name.

That costume is clearly a bastardization of Star Swirl the Bearded. It makes sense!

They also forgot his real name.
Anonymous
#602127
9 months ago
A lot of series have Christmas' that aren't under the name Christmas.

Why would they have Halloween?
achro
#602130
9 months ago
Celestimas
FancyCat2008
#602134
9 months ago
They won't call it Christmas. It will be a "Secularrific Non-Declarational Winter Solstice Holiday Celebration Festival", not out of some sinister Politically Correct agenda, but for the simple fact that there isn't a Jesus in Equestria to name it after. But I'm willing to bet it will still involve giving gifts, decorating trees, making snowmen, stocking by the fireplace, jingle bells, etc, so who the fuck cares what they call it?
Anonymous
#602140
9 months ago
To clarify, they've mostly forgotten the name "Star Swirl" in association with the Holiday and have come up with an entirely new name for him.

The true details of his past are considered obscure knowledge.
Anonymous
#602142
9 months ago
^Exazzly
Anonymous
#602145
9 months ago
602142 @ 602134
Anonymous
#602146
9 months ago
Am I the only one noticing Lyra's eyes are... not yellow?
NotAPseudonym
#602158
9 months ago
@602146 No, you're not.
Fuzzy_Logic
#602164
9 months ago
#602123

Almost literally nothing.
Jackarunda
#602287
9 months ago
Actually Celestiamas would work

or Cellymas
bamakid1272
#602360
9 months ago
@Jack
Trust me, I really want a cartoon today to have the balls to actually use Christmas instead of all these, as you said, "Secularrific Non-Declarational Winter Solstice Holiday Celebration Festival" (Yeah, I copy-pasted. So sue me) names. That's one reason I enjoy older cartoons so much, with Rugrats honestly being one of the biggest examples.

However, this is one of those shows that I feel makes since to not use it. The whole setting calls for something different, so I'm ok with it if they don't use Christmas in THIS show.

I'd still love it if they did anyways. Just gives me more reason to love the show.
Dr_Action
#602429
9 months ago
I hope they make a Christmas special

it could be Celestmas and celebrating her gloreous birth.
Anonymous
#602508
9 months ago
December 25, now thought the birth of Christ/
Was Saturnalia, when men got drunk/
fucked each other then beat their wife/
Fact is, it was still practiced, til they called it Christmas/
So put a gerbil on your Christmas list/
Saufsoldat
#602568
9 months ago
+1 internets if you have the balls to take a bunch of pagan solstice celebrations and just pretend your favorite religious figure was born that day despite all evidence to the contrary and even the catholic church admitting that he was probably not born in december.
Xuncu
#602948
9 months ago
Actually, the first christians, the symbol they chose for themselves was the fish, because ---- tl;dr they're actually worshipping the sun entering the Age of Piscies, and they knew it back then.

Golden Calf --> Orthodox Jews and the ram's horn --> Jesus Fish --> Mark 14:13 "Next covenant: look for a dude carrying water."
i.e.
Tarus --> Aries (ram) ---> Pisces ---> Aquarius

So, JesusPony would be a fish. Or Mithra. Or one of the other dozen or so gods the Jesus myth is based on. What would a cutie mark for Copyright Infrigement be? Hm....... Disney's logo?
Anonymous
#602978
9 months ago
^Jesus pony = seapony?
Anonymous
#603086
9 months ago
^IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
Fubarman
#603092
9 months ago
Happy Christmahannukwanzadan!
Anonymous
#603179
9 months ago
I don't remember the details, but I'm pretty sure the Christian fish was a pun on Jesus's name as written in the Greek alphabet.

I agree that it would be silly to call it "Christmas" in Equestria.
ryebread
#603203
9 months ago
Pony-Christmas is all about how Celestia and Luna were born. Probably mixing in some Romulus and Remus elements.

Also I never understood, why Christians woreship something that killed their god! As someone who doesn't belong to the Abrahamitic Cult it is one of the things that fascinates me. The first symbol of Christianity was a fish. Like the story with the basket with 2 fishes.
Anonymous
#603863
9 months ago
well, i have seen a lot of fanfics calling god "The Steed" and as we know the producers of FIM do take the fanbase seriously (as seriously as one can take the fanbase of a pony show) so i believe they should call it "Steedmas"
Aggressively-Pastel
#603894
9 months ago
Wouldn't a solstice celebration of any sort just raise way too many heretical questions about astronomy? Particularly for a nation whose god-emperor is supposedly personally responsible for the orbits of the moon and the [del]planet[/del]sun.

(I know, the Summer Sun Celebration is probably the other one, and the equinoxes are far too good a pun to pass up. And there's a whole caste of unicorn astronomers...)

Also, two bits of wood nailed together, as befits a carpenter. Celly just had him crucified for the lulz and irony.
Anonymous
#603917
9 months ago
^ FIM is focused on lil girls, the producers wouldnt give a fuck if the girls did or did not know about astronomy.
Xuncu
#604030
9 months ago
Also, Spike's cosntume implies they have Hawaii, and boobs in this world.
Xuncu
#604037
9 months ago
ie; chest-udders, not crotch-boobs.
Anonymous
#604474
9 months ago
How would they explain christmas? They don't have Jesus, they have Celestia. What, is it just the day she was born? This is gonna cause more problems than we want to go into.

"Holiday Special" is the only way they can satisfy everyone
Anonymous
#604579
9 months ago
or "Xmas"
Xuncu
#604985
9 months ago
^Well, the whole saturnilia/christmas is about the solstice--- soooo, Winter Night Celebration, problably, to mirror the first episode.

Short Version:
1) Because of the tilt in the earth's axis, from the northern hemisphere (ie: including the Middle East/"Holy Land"); the place the sun rises from on the horizon moves south durring fall, days get shorter and night grows longer.
2) About the 22nd of December, that spot seems to stop (from the vantage of casual human observation, using mountains or hills or some kind of physical marker, ect), and it's the longest night(s) of the year.
3) 3 days later, that spot starts to move back north, and the days become longer again, bringing the northern hemisphere out of the cold grip of winter
4) untill the equinox in spring when day and night is equal, then the day is longer than the night, and the Nothern Hemisphere's spring (ie: Winter-Wrap Up) restores the green and animals come out of hibernation

Soooo, translate that through mythology and superstition--- remember, these are people who think meteor showers and eclipses mean the world is about to die, and that mars gives a fuck about where it is when you are born.
1) Primitve man thinks the sun is a god, or at least it's all-seeing eye (Mithra, Jesus, Osiris, dozens of other gods)
2) Alot of those gods have mythologies about being killed in some manner, and earth 'dies' with it (hibernation of plants and animals).
3) on the third day, the god comes back to life
4) to 'beat' death and bring life to the world, celebrated again in Ēostre (aka; "WHICH day was Jesus supposed to be born?") to 'complete' it's victory (like how in Revelations, there's the Normal "Satan Dethroned" ending, then 1K years, then the True Ending, accomplished by using the Channeling Stone in the hosptial parking lot, the schoolyard, and the boathouse, and collecting all the Talismans)
Xuncu
#605003
9 months ago
tl;dr - if 'Moses' and the Jews settled in the southern hemisphere, Christians would today prolly belive July the 4th to be Jesus' birthday.
Xuncu
#605035
9 months ago
No wait, "Winter Moon" Celebration, not Winter Night.

And I'm totally OK with the jarring plotshift of "Equestria has a positive Luna holiday so soon after Nightmare Night", just for the sake of another Luna episode this December.

The fun, as it is said, would be doubled.
Anonymous
#605075
9 months ago
Way too fucking complex. I say we call it Steedmas and thats all.
RealityCheck
#605139
9 months ago
okay..
1)the fish symbol was because the first letter of the words "Jesus Christ Our Lord" (or a similar phrase) in greek spelled out "fish"-- in greek.

2)Jesus was probably born in early spring, during lambing season--- the time when shepherds "watched their flocks by night" rather than putting them in a pen.

3)Most likely, they'll call it "Yuletide" or something similar. Because fussy people bitching about it isn't worth the hassle.
Lupal_Fillyus
#618473
8 months ago
KerWiki: "The acronym INRI represents the Latin inscription which in English reads as "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews" and... ...The Greek version reads ΙΝΒΙ." INBI is also the way it is written in greek, as it is ALLCAPS, which is in this case without weird triangles and gammas and stuff. |NB| perhaps, but either way, I see no fish in this.
This all assuming you're talking about INRI, if not, I want that other phrase.
Anonymous
#726841
7 months ago
Wintersday is best name. I couldn't care less about some dude two thousand years ago who was not even born during winter (Don't believe me? Read your goddamn holybook and see for yourselves.)