The pre-flood Sumerian Kings list. Nearly all biblical stories, myths, gods and legends relate to them.

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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Pagan just means someone who lives in the countryside. People who live in the country have an agricultural religion with festivals which take place on important dates in the agricultural calendar. Lots of religions in the northern hemisphere have festivals around the winter solstice because that's an important marker, the days getting warmer and longer. The solstice moves so while now it's on the 21st December in biblical times it was on the 25th or after.

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I know, I was just pointing out how the Church has conveniently used the term to crush its opposition.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What I mean is just because the dates are the same doesn't mean one thing came from another. Rather multiple religions celebrated the same dates in the same kind of ways because they had the same seasons. For the winter solstice that's going to be heroes who go to the underworld and return just as the summer goes and returns.