Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on Nostr: npub180d8r…9yqvk npub16a3wq…k9dah npub1k4qml…73lsq I'd say Halloween is the ...
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I'd say Halloween is the most pagan. It's relatively unreconstructed from Samhain in a lot of places. The church plopped All Saints the next day to try to overshadow it.
Everyone has a spring festival somewhere, and Christmas was calculated early on based on traditions about when Easter was and other stuff. It was just a pretty minor day until the Western church wanted to absorb Solstice and Saturnalia festivals in various places.
I'd say Halloween is the most pagan. It's relatively unreconstructed from Samhain in a lot of places. The church plopped All Saints the next day to try to overshadow it.
Everyone has a spring festival somewhere, and Christmas was calculated early on based on traditions about when Easter was and other stuff. It was just a pretty minor day until the Western church wanted to absorb Solstice and Saturnalia festivals in various places.