Are you kidding us Fox News? You want us to believe that origins of thanksgiving should be attributed to some secret Christian good old boys club?

Well, that seems to be exactly what Fox News is pushing, and we’re not having any of it.

According to an article published on the Fox News website, there are five secrets of Thanksgiving and they are:
1- A secret society invented Thanksgiving.
2- There’s a secret connection between the Bible and Thanksgiving.
3- A manuscript lost for two centuries resurfaces with true Thanksgiving meanings.
4- Pilgrims preferred Thanksgiving to Christmas.
5- The Statue of Liberty holds Thanksgiving Day secrets.

It reads like something right out of a Tom Hanks movie with all of its Da Vinci Code-isms, but what a load of fabrications and misleading conservative self-serving creations this article is. We couldn’t allow it to pass as real, and thought you ought to know the real secrets behind Thanksgiving.

1- No secret society invented Thanksgiving. The celebration is an ancient Pagan celebration pre-dating Christianity by centuries. Thanksgiving Day arrived as the Pagan’s final celebration as the last harvest before winter set in.

In most Pagan traditions, there are four harvest celebrations when the crops are harvested and enjoyed together as a communal religious experience. The idea that this celebration was created by an “old gentlemen’s club” is laughable. Truth is, the men lifted the tradition from the women, who were the ones who invented agriculture and who brought the families together to celebrate with lots of good food.

2- Feiler goes on to assert that there was no Thanksgiving Day until it was officially introduced to the House of Representatives, and his link to the Bible is that the guy who introduced the measure, was also the founder of the American Bible Society. So with that said, the link of logic is not that Thanksgiving Day is linked to the Bible, but rather as an official American holiday, it’s linked to American Bible Society’s Elias Boudinot … who was himself not a bible, but rather a person.

Clearly Feiler and Fox News believe that history starts with American history, completely negating centuries of European and other world histories.

3- Well, there is no number three really. A Feiler says is that William Bradford kept a record of the pilgrims back in the day … and well, that’s it. It doesn’t say anything about “Thanksgiving Day.”  I guess we’re supposed to draw the inference to the Thanksgiving celebration with the Native Americans ourselves and from that we can fill in the blanks on any hidden means because Feiler clearly didn’t fill us in.

4- The pilgrims didn’t so much prefer Thanksgiving to Christmas, as they didn’t celebrate Christmas as we know it at all. They were a very conservative group of people who left their homeland to escape religious persecution. And even though Feiler says they preferred Thanksgiving, they really didn’t do that either. But truth is, they did have a meal together with some Native Americans right after a harvest. It was about the sharing of food and a communal celebration, the same as the Pagans do. Neither Thanksgiving Day, nor Christmas Day were part of the pilgrim’s religious ideologies.

5-  Feiler says that the Statue of Liberty got her rays of light around her head and the tablet in her arms as part of a lifting of symbols associated with Moses. What Feiler doesn’t tell you, is that those same symbols were lifted from ancient Goddesses from matriarchal societies and adapted into patriarchy and its new Gods of war.

Look to any of the ancient statues or paintings of Goddesses and you find the rays coming from their heads. The Lady of Guadalupe has them all around her. You see the rays around the Virgin Mary, around the Star Goddesses (angels) and radiating from the head of Pallas Athena, who was herself made into a war goddess by patriarchy.

The same is true for the scrolls and tablets found in the arms of Goddesses. Point is that these symbols did not originate with Moses, they are far older and actually pre-date Christianity all together.

The problem with this whole article by Fox News, is like their politics, it’s all about right-wing narrow-minded conservative American views. History and the Thanksgiving Harvest celebrations did not begin with the colonization of North America. It’s centuries old, not a few hundred of years old, and it comes from our pagan roots. Not some stuffy old gentlemen’s club.

We hope you had a joyous Thanksgiving Day Final Harvest celebration. We did. Blessings!