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	Nature worship (from Western theatre) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The most widely held theory about the origins of theatre is that it evolved from rituals created symbolically to act out natural events, thereby bringing them down to human scale and making the unknown more easily accessible.
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		The worship of Dionysus spread throughout the Greek land especially in Delphi with the unanimous decision of the priests.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-59878 (883 words)

	AskWhy! on Sun Gods as Atoning Saviours - Christianity Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A relic of the original belief in the dual solar nature of the Christian myth, it must have been said at the birth of the summer sun at the winter solstice, for, in this myth, John is the winter sun, as his association with water makes clear.
		Nature Worship generally, and Agrarian in particular, were responsible for the Tammuz cult of Babylon, with which the worships of Adonis and Attis, and even of Dionysus, are so unmistakably allied.
		Zeus’s thunderbolt shook the earth, rocks were rent, the whole frame of nature became convulsed, and in a storm, which seemed to threaten the dissolution of the universe, the solemn scene closed, and Prometheus departed to the underworld in death.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /christianity/0310SunGod.html (11991 words)

	Dissent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nature worship can include as it objects, the sun, stars, moon, animals, water, earth, or any other creating thing.
		In Hinduism it is of minor importance what sort of worship is adopted, provided one recognizes the supremacy of the Brahmins and the sacredness of Brahmin customs and traditions.
		In the pantheistic all-god Brahma, the whole world of deities, spirits, and other objects of worship is contained, so that Hinduism adapts itself to every form of religion, from the lofty monotheism of the cultivated Brahmin to the degraded nature-worship of the ignorant savage.
	www.ourladyswarriors.org /dissent/index.html (2083 words)

	christmas is pagan
		He was supposed to have slain the divine bull, from whose dying body sprang all plants and animals beneficial to humanity.
		After the conquest of Assyria in the 7th century BC and of Babylonia in the 6th century BC, Mithra became the god of the sun, which was worshipped in his name (see Sun Worship).
		This is the origin of the worship of "Mother and Child".
	jc.t3.bz /xmas.htm (1888 words)

	Hong Kong Sabbatarian Church of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Now we know that we should rest and worship our Lord on the Sabbath which is the seventh day of the week.
		Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians "used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."
		Where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops.
	hkscg.bravehost.com /articles/a002.html (1858 words)

	The Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some say "I don't worship it" or "it is just a symbol of remembrance".
		Truth of the matter is that the cross can be traced all the way back to Moses and the Exodus out of Egypt.
		Sun worship was the "religion" of the Egyptians (2000 BCE), but even before that was it a symbol that the Hindu religion used in 2500 BCE!
	assemblyofyhwh.com /cross.html (554 words)

	Christian Cross = Bastardized Paganism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		India, Syria, Persia and Egypt have all yielded numberless examples, while numerous instances, dating from the later Stone Age to Christian times, have been found in nearly every part of Europe.
		The use of the cross as a religious symbol in pre-Christian times, and among non-Christian peoples, may probably be regarded as almost universal, and in very many cases it was connected with some form of nature worship."
		The cross was worshipped by the Pagan Celts long before the incarnation and death of Christ
	spl.haxial.net /religion/cross (1672 words)

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