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was able to gather more information about Christmas symbols. Then I added to my list
under the "symbols section."
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Christmas symbols. It provided a brief description about each symbol and how they came
about Christmas. With each symbol their was also a passages from the bible. The
passages were either stories or things about the symbols.
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Kelly, Joseph F. "Christmas." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2016. Web. 22 Nov. 2016.
From this site, I gathered information about the history and origin of Christmas. This site
also states the idea of how the meaning of Christmas has changed over the years. In this
site, I am able to learn about how different places around the world celebrate christmas.
This site also provides knowledge of the Christmas traditions from over the years.
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2016, religion.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1575584. Accessed 21 Nov. 2016. This site
showed me what the word Christmas means it is the blend of the word "Christ's Mass."
With the general thought in mind that Christmas started out as a religious Christian
holiday, this site showed me that it was a possibility (the article says "supported with
evidence" although it doesn't talk about the evidence) that Christmas started out in North
America. Then the holiday spread to Western Churches and became a Christian holiday.
This site also showed me other ways places around the world call Christmas. The last
piece of information this website gave me were Christmas traditions and the background
of Santa Claus.
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Verses, Passages and Scriptures. King James Version, www.gasl.org/refbib/
Bible_King_James_Version.pdf. Accessed 21 Nov. 2016. From this bible of the King
James Version, I used many verses, and scriptures, and passages to describe Christ, and
Christmas. In the bible, it contains many stories of how our Christ was born and how he
experienced life. It also showed how many of the Christian stories were slowly shifted
into American figures and traditions.
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