Question by Blue Foots™: What are some of the important Pagan events in the history of your country?
And what country are you from.
btw, I mean, times in history that events happened or started in your country.
Maybe things that happened in the U.S. that didn’t happen in Australia.. or times in the UK or Germany that did not occur in Zmibia? 🙂 Or, was there anything that was on a worldwide scale?
Best answer:
Answer by ?
Christmas
Easter
Halloween
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
we tie the feet of blue footed birds on strings around our necks
Well, most of the Christian holidays are actually taken from Pagan holidays.
And, who can forget the witch hunts in Salem?
We all danced the May pole every spring as kids – and that is pagan in background. We decorated Christmas trees and hunted for Easter eggs and dressed up in our spookiest outfits for Halloween.
We had a Prime Minister who liked to communicate with the dead and studied necromancy. But that one was hidden away for years until his death. That is as close as I can get.
Everything before the 6th century was Celtic tradition/lifestyle/artwork before those bloody christians came and destroyed it. Still we have our languages and are learning more and more about our history.
Hail Britannia!
Actually, any important event in Europe before 300 AD. would be considered Pagan. Ditto South America before the Spanish conquest and North America before the Puritans, French, and Spanish.
Well, for the US in terms of paganism:
The right to freedom of religion first and foremost….
Then the introduction of Asatru to the united states by Stephen McNallen.
Beside the obvious holidays, I would say the pentacle approval for the VA headstone.
http://www.circlesanctuary.org/liberty/veteranpentacle/23Apr07Update.htm
Well, the history of the USA is relatively short, however
there is a long list of important events of one sort, which
did involve “pagans”… that is, native Americans.
It’s a list of mass murders of innocent unarmed people,
including women and children. An estimated total of 40
million were directly killed, and another 100 million died
as a result of related causes.
It’s ironic that those who came to America to find religious
freedom should then force their religion on others… or use
it as a cause to exterminate them… especially after the
native people had so often greeted them in friendship and
given them their assisance and trust.
But I guess they found out what Christiany was all about.
The list of attrocites commited in the name of Christ is
much too long to post here… please see this link, or the
many other accounts of the glorious history of Christians
in America… if you have a strong stomach.
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A4a.htm
As to any positive Pagan history in the USA, I’m afraid
there is little to speak of… after all, this is a “Christian
Nation”… and we all know what that means.
Jean