Religion
Related: About this forumWhatever happened to old time religion, the kind our ancestors lived by?
Where did all the old gods go? Zeus, Apollo, Janus, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen?
Why is it that old gods fall out of favor and new gods take their place?
Is it political? Is it a result of one culture conquering another?
How did the old "Pagan" Celtic gods lose out to the "new and improved" St. Patrick, when it was the Roman legions that conquered Briton, not the twelve tribes of the holy land?
Girard442
(6,082 posts)Although they are very deer to me.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)PJMcK
(22,040 posts)(wink)
world wide wally
(21,751 posts)rsdsharp
(9,195 posts)Sorry, that drives me nuts. It's like when someone calls Hermie from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer "Herbie."
Here's a copy of the poem in the author's own hand. It clearly says "Donder."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Visit_From_St._Nicholas,_by_Clement_C_Moore.jpg
trotsky
(49,533 posts)We dare not refer to any god by its real name! That's why people say "G-d" or YHWH.
So Donner it is!
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Mariana
(14,860 posts)Congratulations, you've founded a brand new religion!
struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)But they dress in more modern garb now and often use aliases
Here in the US, for example, "Moloch" sometimes travels under the name "Second Amendment" --- but still demands bloody child sacrifices
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Mariana
(14,860 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)...because the alternative was "get stabbed to death by a bunch of angry Franks".