Happy Halloween!
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First thing I want to elaborate on that Halloween has no Christian origins. Christianity is a middle eastern religion and these traditions go way back before the birth of Christ.
Only a decade or two ago Christians were outright denouncing the celebration of Halloween, but with everything Pagan they have given up battling the traditions and instead have begun claiming the holiday as their own. source.
As is the case with most of our modern traditions, the origins date back to before the invasion of Middle Eastern religions and subsequent conquering and slaughter of our pre-Christian ancestors.
The themes of Halloween, that we know today, such as being scared, sweets, and death are all remnants of our native European religion more specifically, the echo of our pre-Christian belief, or the cult of the she-bear.
Our traditional practices focused on the idea of reincarnation and ancestral worship. It is the belief that we are reborn into our bloodline based on the deeds we do in this life. This ensures/ensured that the tribe consisted of good individuals as well as more offspring for the tribe to survive.
By practicing these beliefs, our ancient ancestors were already following scientific rules. They may have not called it the 50/500 rule that we know in biology today, but they practiced it.
The 50/500 rule is where a population under 50 breeding pairs creates a genetic bottleneck resulting in inbreeding. Also, in a population with over 500 breeding pairs a genetic drift occurs, disallowing adaptability and hindering the population for success.
The cult of the she-bear is a complex belief system that explains most fairy tales and holidays. If you are interested, I strongly recommended you check out the heavily sourced book ”The Secret of the She-Bear” by Marie D. F. Cachet.. She presents a wide range of empirical evidence that validates these traditions.
Fairytales, traditions, and rituals held the medical knowledge our ancestors needed to survive.
With each passing season, each phase of human development, and each European ritual we find a correlation relating to the cycle of fetal development in the womb, the uterus, umbilical cord, and the following rebirth of reincarnated life.
The significance of the bear, in the she-bear cult, is that after fertilization, pregnancy only occurs when the bear is healthy and the sperm and egg are genetically acceptable to survive, meaning only the best eggs are fertilized and ultimately born into this world. Soure.
The amazing thing is that our ancestors somehow possessed this knowledge and worshiped the bear for this ability.
Knowing that the bear was able to select her offspring in pregnancy, gave our ancestors hope that our good deeds would allow us to be selected for rebirth into an honorable and worthy life.
So, in short, our lives consist of trimesters the same as the three required for fetal development only in life it is soul development.
We are reincarnated into the womb and born as children, once we lose our milk teeth and receive our adult teeth our ancestor's soul is reborn into our body we remember who we were. Then finally, we perform good deeds before death to safeguard an honorable next life.
Relating this all back to Halloween.
At around age seven, when a child loses their milk teeth and the adult teeth have grown in, we see that the child has the received the reincarnated soul of an ancestor.
For the transformation to be complete the child must show they are worthy of receipt by doing something scary. Back in the day this was done by entering a cave with a bear (in the fall during early stages of hibernation) and leaving their mark on the wall, hence cave paintings.
If the child survived, another cycle of reincarnation was complete. They were worthy of carrying their ancestor's soul in this life.
After the child had completed the scary task, it would be granted entrance into the ancestral burial mound to retrieve an artifact from a deceased ancestor and this item would show them who they had been in a past life ultimately granting the child more knowledge and honor to possess in this life.
The sweet and sugary part of Halloween relates to the fall, and specifically to the hibernation cycle of the bear. Once the child has completed a scary task and discovered who they were, they were then rewarded with feasting on sweets, or traditionally honey.
That is the short version of the cult of the bear and hopefully explains a little bit about European tradition. Obviously, we can't practice most of these beliefs anymore because of the way the church has made us fear death turning it into taboo to interact with the dead and ultimately forget who we are.
Now we have no more traditional culture, no knowledge of past lives, no identity. Just lost souls easily controlled and looking to be saved.
Luckily, though, we are able to have little reminders such as Halloween to rekindle the ancient embers of ancestral memory.
So scare some kids, eat some sweets, honor your dead and have a great Halloween!