The Pagan Origin Of Easter
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Solar Myths and Christian Festivals: The Pagan Origins of Christian Beliefs $1.00 To the ordinary public, the connection between Paganism and Christianity still seems rather remote. Indeed the common notion is that Christianity was really a miraculous interposition into and dislocation of the old order of the world; and that the pagan gods (as in Milton’s Hymn on the Nativity) fled away in dismay before the sign of the Cross, and at the sound of the name of Jesus. Doubtless thi… |
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Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning $3.10 The subject of Religious Origins is a fascinating one, as the great multitude of books upon it, published in late years, tends to show. Indeed the great difficulty to-day in dealing with the subject, lies in the very mass of the material to hand–and that not only on account of the labor involved in sorting the material, but because the abundance itself of facts opens up temptation to a student in… |
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Christmas: Its Origin and Associations $3.40 In the third quarter of the nineteenth century, it fell to my lot to write an article on Christmas, its customs and festivities. And, although I sought in vain for a chronological account of the festival, I discovered many interesting details of its observances dispersed in the works of various authors; and, while I found that some of its greater celebrations marked important epochs in our nationa… |
