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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Did you know the Latin root for “Pagan” simply means villager? While the three big religions were spreading to “metropolitan” areas, there were small villages that didn’t have access to these religions (or the religions didn’t spread to them yet).

Now today, we call people who pray to multiple Gods/Goddesses, or aren’t of the three big religions, Pagans. But a pagan is simply a “villager”.

Pagan comes from a Latin word paganus, meaning villager, rustic, civilian, and itself comes from a pāgus which refers to a small unit of land in a rural district.

They control us & our thoughts with language, and they’ve bastardized it so much, we don’t even realize what we’re truly saying anymore..

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

TIL thanks Enza.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

np!

:)