A Look Into the Origin of Mother’s Day

Are You Celebrating Your Mother this Mother’s Day? You may want to read this post.

It’s Mother’s Day today in Mexico, it will be next Sunday here in the US, and all around the world, people are similarly celebrating their mothers. We all love our mothers (well, most do) and feel it necessary to set aside a day every year to make a special day for them. Surely there’s nothing wrong with that right? Well, if we observe the traditional mother’s day holiday, that’s where we are wrong. In fact, mother’s day has sinister and occult origins that have nothing to do with our mothers. Let’s take a look at the history and roots of this holiday not many know about or are willing to acknowledge.

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At its core, Mother’s Day is a celebration in honor of the Queen of Heaven (an ancient pagan mother goddess).

According to historians, the first celebration observed in honor of a “mother” was an ancient Greek spring festival dedicated to the goddess Rhea. She was the wife and sister of the god Chronus and mother to Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Rhea is known as the mother of the gods and goddesses. Chronus was known as a god who devoured his children and is associated with the Roman god, Saturn (Satan).

In the ancient Roman culture, mother’s day was celebrated in the form of a festival dedicated to the goddess Cybele who was their mother goddess. She is also known as magna mater (alma mater). The celebration in her honor was called Hilaria after it was adopted from the Greeks and held for three days, March 15-18. This ceremony was first observed 250 years prior to the birth of Christ, so Jesus was well aware of these pagan celebrations during His time here.

“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.” (Jeremiah 7:18, KJV)

The festivities were held during the spring equinox in the temple erected in Cybele’s honor.

The Encyclopedia Britannica (1959):

“A festival derived from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Formal mother worship ceremonies to Cybele or Rhea, the Great Mother of the gods, were performed on the Ides of March throughout Asia Minor.”

So ingrained are these pagan goddesses and their pagan celebrations that not only is the holiday still observed today but there are statues in their honor. In Madrid, Spain for example, there’s the Plaza de Cibeles where a monument and fountain stand. The Spanish adopted this pagan spring, mother goddess holiday and still hold celebrations there in her honor.

Columbia University has a famous statue of Cybele on the steps of the library on campus. And no wonder, it’s her namesake that was adopted to refer to the college one graduated from. Like I’ve said before in my previous posts on pagan holidays, paganism is infiltrated everywhere, that we encounter it daily and we’re none the wiser.

And as always, the Catholic Church adopted the pagan mother’s day celebration to honor the Virgin Mary, who they actually consider the Queen of Heaven.  

Yes, you read right, the Virgin Mary the Catholics worship is not the mother of Jesus but is an ancient pagan goddess in disguise. I will cover this topic in another post sometime in the future.

On December 8, 1854, the Immaculate Conception of Mary was proclaimed by Pope Pius IX. With this proclamation, the Catholic church set in stone that Mary was born free from original sin.

All these goddesses; Rhea, Cybele, and the Virgin Mary represent the goddess of one-thousand names who happens to be none other than… Semiramis. If you have read my previous posts on pagan holidays you may have noticed that Semiramis gets mentioned frequently, and that’s because she is known by different names in many religions around the world.

You may be wondering how these ancient celebrations evolved into the modern mother’s day holiday observed today. Here is that portion of the story.

Anna Marie Jarvis, known as the mother of mother’s day, is accredited with founding and popularizing the American holiday. After the death of her mother, Anna Reeves, Jarvis decided to honor her with a celebration. With the help of a friend, John Wanamaker, they created Mother’s Day on May 9, 1905. On May 12, 1907, Jarvis organized and commemorated a mother’s day celebration. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared the 2nd Sunday of May as Mother’s Day in the US and then it spread to other countries.

The New York Times (May 10, 1953):

“In spite of the popularity of Cybele…and sporadic occasions honoring mothers during the Middle Ages, it was not until 1914 that the proper combination of sentimentality, idealistic promotion, and hard business sense impelled the United States Congress to designate the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.”

In the UK, “Mother Day” replaced the ancient pagan spring practices honoring mother goddesses which is held on the 4th Sunday during Lent.

But you may ask, “but I don’t see the connection between the ancient pagan goddess celebrations and modern-day mother’s day.”

For starters, Mother’s Day is not a Biblical holiday. Right off the bat, that should concern the Christian seeking to please G-d. YHWH is a G-d of absolutes and every single holiday, practice, action and worship is either of YAH Elohim or it belongs to the enemy. There is no in-between, no grey areas my friends.  

So if Mother’s Day was never instituted by YAH then who inspired this holiday? The enemy. Mother’s day does not glorify G-d, sadly, this comes in stark contrast with the holy worship YAH commanded us to practice in honor of HIM and HIM alone. Everything we think, say, and do must worship and glorify the Creator.

“Ascribe to the LORD, O sons of the mighty, Ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to His name; Worship the LORD in holy array.” (Psalm 29:1-2)

And the fact is that mother’s day is a holiday rooted in the ancient mystery religion and we worship another god when we join in the practice.

“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” (Matthew 15:8-9)

There’s nothing wrong with honoring your mother, in fact, Scripture commands the honoring of our parents.

“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” (Exodus 20:12).

But we must honor them EVERYDAY and not just with gifts but first and foremost, in obedience and respect.

If you want to gift your mother something special or make a feast for her, it doesn’t have to be on this date.

So there you have it, the origin and danger of observing mother’s day. As always, I’d like to clarify that with this post I am not judging or condemning anyone who may disagree. It doesn’t affect me in any way if people disagree with me, the truth is truth whether you agree or not and whether you like it or not.

Observing or not observing these pagan holidays is up to the individual, but I pray that you may seek Truth always and that YAH may show you The Way and may His light shine upon you. In the end, Truth will be revealed to those who diligently seek it! Blessings!

Shalom!

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