European Syncretism

>>2169615
Non Germanic countries call Easter the paschal season and it has nothing to do with Germanic beliefs.

>>2169683
What do bunnies and eggs have to do with the death of Christ?
I'm not saying that specific brand of syncretism is everywhere, (I'm pretty sure Eostre was only documented in the Anglo-Saxon brand of Germanic religion) but that's clearly Germanic religion-influenced.

>>2169683
>>2169751
Read St. Bede for more, but "Easter" is just modern English for the name of an old Germanic goddess. It is now synonymous with "Passover" aka "Pascha".

>>2169615
All paganism is heresy and must be removed

>>2169751
Sure dude. I think what your missing is that old ways are already seamlessly mixed into mythos all over the world. No one has a problem unless someone makes it a problem.

>>2169887
Out of curiosity, Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox?

>>2169891
Well that's the point of the thread. I just want discussion and opinions, I'm not arguing for one or the other yet.

>>2169615
It's a shame some kind of Shinto/Buddhist relationship could have never been worked out.

>>2171237
Syncretism between Shinto and Buddhism?
Or between Shinto/Buddhism and Christianity?

If the former, I'm awful certain Japan has it.

What is the right balance between paganism and Christianity? Whatever theoretical answer you may think about, Catholicism has perfected it in practice over hundreds of years. The Christian Middle Ages is the realization of Plato's republic. Then there was the Renaissance, which only appeared platonic on the outside, but actually gave way to what Plato called an oligarchy, the rule of the merchant class, a corrupt regime, and its ideological expression in humanism. This upset the balance and was the beginning of the end of western civilization, following the steps which Plato accurately predicted in the Republic, leading to mass democracy and socialist tyranny, which is the phase we're entering now.

TL;DR Catholics got it right before Vatican II

>>2169615
Christianity adopted local traditions as it spread around. It seems to me like the balance we have today has formed through centuries and retains enough old character. Pre-Christian beliefs contained enough elements comparable to those in Christianity that they could be organically incorporated into the newly dominated religion that took root here.

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>>2170003
This. As Charleston pointed out, paganism never really died. I continued to live on as literary metaphors, art, spiritual themes, elves, fables, ect.

>>2173659
Well in some cases, it actually survived in its original form. As far as I know, some old beliefs remained in the Baltic but I'm not really sure 100%. What I do know is that old beliefs survived in isolated communities in Slovenia into the early 20th century. There are even some allegations that ethnologists discovered new offerings at certain holy caves in the 21st century, but I haven't seen any proof to these statements. These were apparently pre-Slavic beliefs that had its origin in pre-Slavic stone age natives.

You're right though, the old oral traditions of pre-Christian cultures survived on. In the case of Slavic cultures, the old gods were replaced with saints - it was basically just a change in name. many pre-Christian holidays were incorporated into the Christian structure and are celebrated in this form to this day.