I think there's a big difference between "pagan" and "seasonal". There are still seasonal festivals - they're called things like Christmas and Easter and Bank Holiday Monday. 100 or 150 years ago, the seasonal meaning of festivals like that would have been much more vivid - and so would the religious (Christian) meaning. I think people who try to find spiritual significance in old songs by spotting parallels with pre-Christian religions are looking in the wrong place.

Anyway, this is all way off topic - maybe I should hang on to this thought until the next time somebody starts sounding off about Saturnalia.

How was Swarb?