Christmas has supplanted our traditional festival Rosicrucian member Listen to article
A member of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, Cape Coast Centre, Mr. Charles Essel Moses has said the term Christmas and its associated activities are new and something introduced by the white people.
He however noted that the celebration itself is not entirely new to ancestors of this land. I cannot tell what name our ancestors gave or had for the festival they celebrated at the end of the year, but normally they would pour libation to the dead and seek their help in the coming year. Once this was done the ancestors got excited that if the living are remembering the dead, then they needed to do something for them. This is what our ancestors normally did around this time, he stated.