Re: CHAT: Day & month names (was: CHAT: Easter & the Saxon Calendar
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 1, 2000, 20:34 |
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At 3:04 pm -0400 1/5/00, John Cowan wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
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>> >All. After all, it'd look pretty funny to say First Month, February,
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>> Tsk. February is also named after a pagan festival.
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>But not a pagan god.
But I don't imagine the early Quakers were any more ready to accept a pagan
festival than to accept pagan deities. Indeed, wasn't it because they
perceived existing Christian festivals as being essentially pagan, that
they removed themselves from the established Church of England?
Ray.
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