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Originally Posted by Livia
Christians plonked their festivals on Pagan festivals deliberately. Christmas was placed on Yule even though Jesus was probably born in the summer, All Souls/All Saints replaced Samhain or Halloween, Imbolc, which is the Pagans' end of winter festival, was replaced by St Brigid, Lady Day or Candlemass... all Christian stuff. Christians also had a habit of building churches on sacred places. The church of St Mary Magdalene where I was born was built in 1130 on top of a Saxon church, which was built on a Roman temple, which was built on an Ancient British sacred site. Proper interesting stuff...
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Ahhh didn't know all that, I guess that's the tyranny of the Church for you. It's a shame that our Pagan roots have basically been fogotten for Foreign religions and for some reason people think Christianity is British. I've been to a few stone circles and that down south, they're always interesting, and the people down there are usually ones to keep Pagan traditions alive. Although people have told me it's become sort of a trendy thing and those people are generally annoying lol