NIMROD'S mother was Semiramis the daughter OF Cush, SO in reality she was NIMROD'S older sister. 
By incest with Cush she became NIMROD'S mother. When he reached manhood SHE married her own son NIMROD, and ruled as QUEEN.  A few Years later she conspired with others and he was killed. She said he was 2/3 god and 1/3 mortal, and the man had to die AS a sacrifice for his people. She built a monument to him and said he would return soon. Remember she was his sister, mother and wife! THE QUEEN! remember THE QUEEN!

After his death SHE became pregnant and said it was his spirit that had returned to do the deed. He was killed in the winter of the year, AND then she got pregnant. Nine months latter in December she birthed a baby boy at the winter solstice. She had monuments and images carved of her holding her baby son who she said was the son of his Father NIMROD. People to worship her son as the reincarnate of her son NIMROD in the flesh. SHE was Queen, so the people took the story, hook, line, and sinker. It became tradition.

SO for thousands of years the "Pagan religions" celebrated the winter solstice (December 21) as the RE-birth of the SUN GOD and made images of him in the arms of his mother. In Sumer, in Mesopotamia (Iraq) more than 2000 years BEFORE Christ the fertility cult worshiped TAMMUZ, with his sister, MOTHER, god "ISHTAR", in the spring. They said his semen was the raising sap in the trees in spring, bringing new life to the trees.

IF you don't believe me then go yourself and look up topics and names in the Encyclopedia.

Many books have been written telling this same story, SO your ignorance doesn't make it untrue! Go READ YOURSELF!

Our little Library here in Parowan, a town of two thousand people, has a dozen books on Mythology, AND the different names the ancient peoples called them in their various lands.

IN Babylon: NIMROD was called TAMMUZ, Semiramis was ISHTAR.

(ISHTAR is the root word for EASTAR, or as we say Easter.)

IN Egypt: Osiris and Isis, his sister and wife.

IN Greece: ZEUS and Hera, his sister and wife. 
OR, HELIOS and Astarte. 
(another derivative of Easter, Ishtar, the goddess.)

IN Troy: Zeus and Electra, sister and wife.

IN Rome: Jupiter and Juno, sister and wife. 
OR, SOL and Mani the SUN and moon.

IN China: Yang and Yin, Yang the SUN, fire, and Yin the moon and water. The moon controls the tides, and fire of man is quenched, as he goes into woman, the water.

The August 25, 1997, edition OF NEWSWEEK Magazine titled "THE MEANING OF MARY" told of millions of letters to Pope John Paul II, asking him to make the Virgin Mary "CO-Redemptrix, Mediatrix of ALL Graces AND Advocate FOR the People of God." Those letters came from 157 countries the article said. So who is in control of the nations today? THE ANSWER IS   Santa-SATAN- Tammuz-nimrod-the devil-Lucifer.               (Read 2 Corinthians 4: 3-4 ABOUT SATAN THE god of this world.)