All this talk about Co-opting pagan rituals is starting to sound a wee bit over the top.... [View all]
Did anyone stop to think that the Druids adopted stuff from the people who came before they did because what they were doing worked for them.
And don't forget that the people who trekked out of Africa in the dawn of Humanity took their spirituality to the rest of the world where the region and the environment shaped the religion that came after .
We have always, we humans, been picking things from here, there and everywhere jumbling them together to make something that works for us.
Religion and spirituality have been a part of the Human Animal since the first person looked up at the wonder of the night sky and realized that there is something out there that is bigger than I am.
And so it began.
The religion, the mythology of the state, the way we deal with tragedy when tough times comes, comes from something in all of us, grounds us in something. And we can trace that back to that very first person who looked at all those stars that stretched from horizon to horizon and asked why am I here.
Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in an after life or an omnipotent God, it's just that the Pagan rituals in the time before Christianity were there as an assurance that they would make it to Spring and renewal. And why do we capture that same feeling even though it is ancient, let it overtake our emotions and bring us to celebrate the old with the new.
Because, my dear DU community, we are human.
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