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Originally Posted by NewNHguy
Actually, the Mayans, Aztecs, Seminoles and other Native American tribes used the phases of the sun and moon for worship and as a primitive calander, helping them to plant crops in relation to the seasons.
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sure. but to specifically line them up with Imbolc, Beltaine, Lammas & Samhain?! no, those indigenous tribes are not using the SAME celtic holidays. Now if it were just a case of lining up for equinoxes and solstices that would be one thing. But the cross-quarter days? I don't buy it. besides, hasn't there been a shift in exactly when the solstices/equinoxes fall since then? They're saying Mystery Hill is older than the Stonehenge and the pyramids. I thought there had been a shift. If so.. then how can the rocks in the perimeter line up to a current calendar?
Mind you I think the village is fascinating, I just think some of the perimeter stones are stretching things a bit.
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Just as the Pagan religion does,
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excuse me: PaganS religionS. There is no one Pagan religion.
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the beliefs of these people relied heavily on mother earth, and the bounty or disaster derived from her.
Somewhere in the annals of time, Paganism became synonimous with devil worship, which is not so.
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Yup, quite correct!
"pagan" simply means "country" as "heathen" simply means "of the heath". Not all Pagan/heathen religions use the same holiday schedule and have nothing to do with a Christian concept of 'Devil'. and somehow the rule 'you shall have no gods BEFORE (ahead of) me' turned into 'you shall have no gods other than me' -which interestingly does admit that there are other gods.
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