User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wikia 2014: A Recap of FAN-tactular Events/@comment-4129195-20141224230631/@comment-1038387-20141228203351

As I said, there are many festivals. There was Saturnalia, there was Yule, there was Christmas, there are many, many more local customs that have become merged into what we now know as Christmas. The deeper meaning (IMO) is that humanity can finally find a common ground somewhere and celebrate life in the darkness of winter.