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Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

It's like a mashup of Michael Cera, John Cena, and John Sununu.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Right. But the Cernunnos is wearing antlers because they indicated protectiveness, not necessarily of humans, but of the forest and the countryside. And you could be in Cernunnos' good graces by taking care of those things, or you could run afoul of Cernunnos if you, say, just stepped on a bunch of ducks for no good reason.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Right. But the Cernunnos is wearing antlers because they indicated protectiveness, not necessarily of humans, but of the forest and the countryside. And you could be in Cernunnos' good graces by taking care of those things, or you could run afoul of Cernunnos if you, say, just stepped on a bunch of ducks for no good reason.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Right. But the Cernunnos is wearing antlers because they indicated protectiveness, not necessarily of humans, but of the forest and the countryside. And you could be in Cernunnos' good graces by taking care of those things, or you could run afoul of Cernunnos if you, say, just stepped on a bunch of ducks for no good reason.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

But he became Satan eventually, or he was one of the ones. I think they went basically local religion by local religion and identified who could be Satan and then demonized them and all the others.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

But he became Satan eventually, or he was one of the ones. I think they went basically local religion by local religion and identified who could be Satan and then demonized them and all the others.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

But he became Satan eventually, or he was one of the ones. I think they went basically local religion by local religion and identified who could be Satan and then demonized them and all the others.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Exactly. So now, because your God, your ancient pagan God is Satan, if you are caught worshiping that God or any God or any kind of polytheistic pagan religion, you're now in league with the devil. And again, you can be put to death for that kind of thing.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Exactly. So now, because your God, your ancient pagan God is Satan, if you are caught worshiping that God or any God or any kind of polytheistic pagan religion, you're now in league with the devil. And again, you can be put to death for that kind of thing.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Exactly. So now, because your God, your ancient pagan God is Satan, if you are caught worshiping that God or any God or any kind of polytheistic pagan religion, you're now in league with the devil. And again, you can be put to death for that kind of thing.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

And that developed into witch trials, the Inquisition, all sorts of terrible stuff that was essentially the Christian church persecuting in an effort to stamp out any local rival religions. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

And that developed into witch trials, the Inquisition, all sorts of terrible stuff that was essentially the Christian church persecuting in an effort to stamp out any local rival religions. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

And that developed into witch trials, the Inquisition, all sorts of terrible stuff that was essentially the Christian church persecuting in an effort to stamp out any local rival religions. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Yeah, everybody likes Halloween, which started out as Samhain, as we'll see. I think we've talked about that probably 15 times. You know what I think actually triggered me thinking of this topic? What movie? No, it was Easter. I was thinking about, I happened to be up and out around sunrise on Easter, and it reminded me as a kid being raised Catholic of going to sunrise mass in Easter.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Yeah, everybody likes Halloween, which started out as Samhain, as we'll see. I think we've talked about that probably 15 times. You know what I think actually triggered me thinking of this topic? What movie? No, it was Easter. I was thinking about, I happened to be up and out around sunrise on Easter, and it reminded me as a kid being raised Catholic of going to sunrise mass in Easter.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Yeah, everybody likes Halloween, which started out as Samhain, as we'll see. I think we've talked about that probably 15 times. You know what I think actually triggered me thinking of this topic? What movie? No, it was Easter. I was thinking about, I happened to be up and out around sunrise on Easter, and it reminded me as a kid being raised Catholic of going to sunrise mass in Easter.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

And I was like, dude... You're standing there celebrating a religious service, watching the sun rise on a specific day in the spring. Like it is so pagan based and it's in like in every single way. I think even Easter is like a shift or an adaptation of like Ostair, which I believe was one of the polytheistic pagan gods.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

And I was like, dude... You're standing there celebrating a religious service, watching the sun rise on a specific day in the spring. Like it is so pagan based and it's in like in every single way. I think even Easter is like a shift or an adaptation of like Ostair, which I believe was one of the polytheistic pagan gods.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

And I was like, dude... You're standing there celebrating a religious service, watching the sun rise on a specific day in the spring. Like it is so pagan based and it's in like in every single way. I think even Easter is like a shift or an adaptation of like Ostair, which I believe was one of the polytheistic pagan gods.

Stuff You Should Know
Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Wiccans – Let’s Sort It Out!

Like it was it's just there out in the open, basically. And that made me wonder about the whole thing.

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