Egyptian god Osiris The African Culture more so the tribes that lived within the Nile valley had designated the days from December 22 to December 25 to celebrating the rising of the sun. This is stemmed from a time during the winter solstice where you have longer nights and days during 22 and on the 25 you would observe longer days than nights. They called it the day of the rising sun, this was also associated to the birth of the Egyptian god Osiris also known as Ra. During the roman era. roman Catholicism spread its way through roman colonization of the known world. This was during the time of the roman pope Julius I around 350CE , at this time there was no set date for Christmas as it shuffled between January, March, April, May but as the romans came into contact with the tribes along the Nile valley they met with the ideology of Ra and the rising sun. This resonated with the ideas of roman Catholicism and they settled with this days from December 22 to December 25 to mark...