ngl, there are a lot of issues with syncretism of paganism and Christianity in the literature but...
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...there are a great deal of complexities to it that need further exploration imo.
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i.e. how regular Christian folks continued to use pagan rituals, etc. And also how Christians deliberately used imagery...
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...to appeal to pagans b/c hey, why not show that our God has followers that have amazing powers right?
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I mean Patrick never talked about really crazy miracles he performed but later hagiographers did and he effed them druids up.
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and also the Vikings were def a special case when it came to melding religions and iconography together.
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sorry for the vomit of tweets there, just happens to be a particular area that I focus on (pagan and christian interactions).
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Fill my mentions with analytical history so I can roll around in it.
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well right now I am writing about how the Lia Fail was used as a nationalistic symbol
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in Ireland, Scotland, and by British Jesuits.
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