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    9 hours ago

    And I was also referring to Christmas and Easter

    Yule and Eostre? The early Christians didn’t celebrate either (well, some did celebrate Pesach to some limited extent). They later did a hostile takeover of the pre-Christian soltitial and equinoctial festivities, in order to make sure nobody had any fun at them. They also converted a number of minor gods into saints (mostly now deprecated by the Catholic Church, but some still hanging around in Orthodox sects).