Demetri Welsh 
Blood of the Ancients [EPUB ebook] 
The Pagan Origins of Modern Holidays

Brace yourselves, because Blood of the Ancients is not your typical holiday book. This is for the bold, the unapologetic, and the truth-seekers who are done swallowing the sanitized, whitewashed versions of history fed to us by religious institutions. This book will rip the veil off what you’ve been conditioned to celebrate blindly each year and expose the dark, ancient roots beneath the sugar-coated façade of modern holidays like Easter, Christmas, Halloween, and more.

Forget the bullshit stories you’ve been told about Easter being about Christ’s resurrection or Christmas being about baby Jesus. We’re diving into the blood-soaked, sex-charged origins of these holidays. We’re going back to the days when these celebrations were raw, primal rituals of fertility, death, rebirth, and the veneration of forces far older and more powerful than any of today’s sanitized saints.

Blood of the Ancients is going to take you to the depths of history, to the pagan temples where blood sacrifices were made, where magic was real and worship wasn’t about kneeling in church but about communion with the very forces of nature. These celebrations were about survival, power, and respect for the primal forces of the universe-forces that Christianity tried to snuff out but ultimately failed to erase. We’re talking about gods and goddesses like Ishtar, Saturn, and Samhain, whose symbols and rituals were appropriated by early Christians to mask the very thing they feared: the pagan traditions and their ancient, unbreakable grip on human culture.

Each chapter will break down the origins of a different holiday-Christmas, Easter, Halloween, even Valentine’s Day-exposing how each one is rooted in ancient pagan festivals like Yule, Samhain, Ostara, and Saturnalia. We’ll show you the unholy transformations these festivals underwent as the Christian church tried to claim ownership of celebrations that were far older than their religion could ever dream of being.

This isn’t just history-it’s a f***ing reckoning. We’re going to piss people off. But this is the truth about the holidays you’ve been brainwashed into celebrating every year, thinking you’re honoring saints and saviors. When, in fact, you’re unconsciously paying homage to gods and goddesses, rituals of power, blood, and magic far older than you ever imagined.

Get ready to have everything you thought you knew about the holidays obliterated, because Blood of the Ancients is here to strip away the lies and bring back the primal, untamed truth. The roots of your celebrations run deep, and they’re far darker-and more powerful-than you ever imagined. Prepare to confront the forbidden history of human ritual, magic, and celebration.

This book isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for those who aren’t afraid to embrace the raw, unfiltered truth about where these holidays really come from.

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