Happy Easter Deny Ignorance

[Sirius]

Rebirth, not resurrection. The whole bit of 'living on nothing but milk' was clearly a re-enactment of babyhood.

And the exquinox is a quite specific period. The Hilaria covered 13 days, both before, and after, the equinox.

Hilaria - Wikipedia


Sol Invictus didn't really start until 274 years after Christianity. If anything, it borrowed from Christanity.

Sol Invictus - Wikipedia

Saturnalia was from 17 December (16th day before Kalends) to 19 December. It wasn't extended to 23 December until 100 years after Christ (to encompass the solstice). It was also diametrically opposite to Christianity. Christmas is on the 24 December.

Saturnalia - Wikipedia

You see, paganism has a panoply of deities and the co-occurrence of some things does not mean that they are the same. It's just the probability of coincidence.

You also missed out on Tammuz/Adonis, too. there are some similarities there as well, and it's on the 25 December! (but the peak of the Roman military's adoption of Adonis cults was post Christian).

If there was any syncretism between faiths, a fair bit of it was pagan faiths adopting features of the more popular, and faster growing, Christianity.

Relax, be happy, its all good. the rabbit was here with eggs 420