(April 4, 2024 at 11:49 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: You sound like the typical christer denier. Christeranity stole a bunch of formerly pagan holy days in order to covert the pagans.
I sound like Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud, co-editors of the Dictionary of English Folklore, Oxford University Press, 2003
I sound like Ronald Hutton, author of Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, Oxford University Press, 1996
I sound like Philip A. Shaw, Lecturer in English Language and Old English, University of Leicester, author of Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons, Bristol Classical Press, 2011
I sound like Candida R. Moss, Professor at the University of Birmingham, graduate of Oxford and Yale universities.