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09 Apr 2012, 7:14 pm

Can anyone tell me about Pagan history it is very interesting also I found out that befor the early christians their where Pagans that had similar beliefs that Christians do.



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09 Apr 2012, 7:35 pm

Pagan is an umbrella term used for non-Abrahamaic religions by some definitions. You would have to identify which pagan religion in particular you want to know about


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09 Apr 2012, 7:42 pm

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Pagan is an umbrella term used for non-Abrahamaic religions by some definitions. You would have to identify which pagan religion in particular you want to know about


Oh yes I knew it was a umrella-term I would like to know more about celtic paganism or germanic paganism will do just fine.



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10 Apr 2012, 2:31 am

Joker wrote:
Can anyone tell me about Pagan history it is very interesting also I found out that befor the early christians their where Pagans that had similar beliefs that Christians do.


Which Pagan history? There are umpteen Paganisms.

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10 Apr 2012, 2:39 am

ruveyn wrote:
Joker wrote:
Can anyone tell me about Pagan history it is very interesting also I found out that befor the early christians their where Pagans that had similar beliefs that Christians do.


Which Pagan history? There are umpteen Paganisms.

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Mostly Germanic or Celtic.



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10 Apr 2012, 12:22 pm

Joker wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Joker wrote:
Can anyone tell me about Pagan history it is very interesting also I found out that befor the early christians their where Pagans that had similar beliefs that Christians do.


Which Pagan history? There are umpteen Paganisms.

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Mostly Germanic or Celtic.


In school we learned about the Greek Gods and even the Norse Gods. But not the Celts.
But there is well illustrated site I stumbled upon devoted the Celtic Gods- both those of the Gauls of France and the Celts of the British Isles. As rich a bunch of characters as those of Olympus and of Valhalla.

But if you're looking for precursers of Christianity thats a different type of research.

But paralell's and possilbe precursers of christian beliefs are to be found in various local paganisms. Egypt especially. There is a recent book devoted to pagan Egyptian paralells to the Gospels ( "Heaven in Egypt"- something like that).



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10 Apr 2012, 9:01 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Joker wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Joker wrote:
Can anyone tell me about Pagan history it is very interesting also I found out that befor the early christians their where Pagans that had similar beliefs that Christians do.


Which Pagan history? There are umpteen Paganisms.

ruveyn


Mostly Germanic or Celtic.


In school we learned about the Greek Gods and even the Norse Gods. But not the Celts.
But there is well illustrated site I stumbled upon devoted the Celtic Gods- both those of the Gauls of France and the Celts of the British Isles. As rich a bunch of characters as those of Olympus and of Valhalla.

But if you're looking for precursers of Christianity thats a different type of research.

But paralell's and possilbe precursers of christian beliefs are to be found in various local paganisms. Egypt especially. There is a recent book devoted to pagan Egyptian paralells to the Gospels ( "Heaven in Egypt"- something like that).


Hmm really it is all out of curosity but I will look that book up.