although I think that people have a rather strong obsession with a pagan past in Ireland, I'm not sure it's fair to call it bollocks
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it's not that pagans weren't intelligent, but the Christianization of pagan rituals is well-documented in early med Europe
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and the appropriation of deities is a pretty effective way to facilitate conversion
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good point, but I think that it's worth pointing out that we may very well have lost a lot of source material on Brigit...
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...so who's to say that it isn't based on earlier sources? Plus, the extent of the Christianization of laypeople in Ireland...
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is poorly documented, although the persistence of pagan traditions elsewhere in Europe in Christian areas suggests that...
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...well after Christianization, regular ppl still held pagan beliefs, folk practices, etc. while maintaining they were Christian
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and the Church was fighting this. I recommend reading Bernadette Filotas' Pagan Survivals, it's a good survey of the info.
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