In a related story...

While we're on the subject of indigenous seasonal rituals today, Gillibrand of Catholic Church Conservation (who is right most of the time) reports on the proposed inculturation of HIndu customs in the Catholic worship of India.

It is sad to say, but the Church has committed these greivous errors throughout Her history. The term in the English language used to identify the day of Resurrection originated in the Germanic pre-Christian pagan feast celebrating the rites of spring. And come this Christmas (thankfully, a Christian term in its origins), churches throughout the world will erect pagan images in their sanctuaries, also originating in pre-Christian Europe, and will have the nerve to refer to them as "Christmas trees."

Discuss.