So much that is Christian derives from pre-Christian observance - like Easter: a moveable Lunar / Solar feast named after an Anglo-Saxon Hare Goddess and celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. And that's the most important day of the Christian Calendar. But then again some say Christianity is the most Pagan religion of them all; God knows it's certainly the most pompously sanctimonious and baffling to anyone even casually acquainted with the teachings of the man they claim as their messiah. Much of modern Paganism is experienced in terms of Christianity, which preserves much essential lore & mystery traditions (from Marian Matriachy to Gnostic Heresy) as well as key sights, sacred geometry, musical modality and alignments in the landscape. In fact Christianity is SO Pagan I find it supremely ironic that The Green Man is a uniquely Christian construct with no pagan precedent whatsoever.

Paganism is a living dream in the radical hearts of humanity; it is not of 'The Past' but is forever born of the moment. It is the hope that springs eternal that we might, at last, find peace with both ourselves and the planet on which we live. The interpretation of imagery as Pagan is an intuitive similation which has nothing to do with anything so mundane as fact. All this is what you might think of as Folklore; which lives in individual hearts very much as Reasons to be Cheerful - something we have in common yet is unique to each and every one of us.