On Nov 10, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> This has about as much to do with "Italy's old pagan roots" as a
> Star Trek
> convention.
>>
>> By Barbara Cornell
>>
>> MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Milan will sweep aside its Roman and Papal
>> heritage
>> this weekend to celebrate Samhain, popularly regarded as the Celtic
>> New
>> Year, at a festival which highlights Italy's awakened interest in
>> its pagan
>> past.
Don't be so sure. Milan was the center of Cisalpine Gaul, settled by the Gauls who sacked Rome in the Fourth Century BCE (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was the most famous of the Gallic Romans). And the Gauls were, of course, Celts.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos