It falls exactly half of a year from november 1 , which is also associated with various northern european pagan and neopagan festivals such as samhain 这个节日是从11月1日算起，正好是半年；而11月1日也与北欧的异教和新异教的各种节日（如萨温节）有关。
Although the early christians denounced the practice as pagan , the popularity of the baby as a symbol of rebirth forced the church to re - evaluate its position 尽管早期基督徒将新年庆祝公然指责为异教信仰，婴儿象征再生的普及迫使教堂重新考虑他们的立场。
He published his first notable poetry in low tide on grand pre : a book of lyric ( 1893 ) , whose youthful buoyancy and pagan love of nature won it immediate success 他的第一本抒情诗集《大草原的低潮》 ( 1893 )以其青春活力以及对大自然的不同凡属的热爱，一出版就受到读者欢迎。
You have abandoned your people , the house of jacob . they are full of superstitions from the east ; they practice divination like the philistines and clasp hands with pagans 6耶和华、你离弃了你百姓雅各家、是因他们充满了东方的风俗、作观兆的、像非利士人一样、并与外邦人击掌。
Like pagans sharpening their knives , economists debate the size of this “ sacrifice ratio ” : the number of people who must lose their jobs to appease the gods of price stability 磨刀霍霍向猪羊，经济学家们为“经济牺牲率”的合理尺度而争论不休，因为这是要以事业来换取物价稳定的。
The characteristics can be divided roughly into three groups : those with traditional religious significance , those with trad but pagan origin and those needed for the plot only 它的特点可粗略概括为三种：带有传统的宗教意味的；源自传统却与异教相联的；单纯为传说中的故事情节而庆祝的节日。
Frankincense was associated with prayers and burned on pagan altars in rome , persia , babylon , and assyria . it was also used in purification ceremonies . nero burned it by the ton 乳香与祷告者联合在一起，在罗马，波斯，巴比伦和亚述的异教祭坛上都燃烧。它也用于净化仪式。尼禄大量地燃烧乳香。
But as christianity became more widespread , the early church began having its own religious observances concurrently with many of the pagan celebrations , and new year ' s day was no different 不过随着基督教遍及各处，早期的教堂在举行众多的异教庆祝的同时开始有了自己的宗教庆祝，元旦也不例外。
They at least do prove that christians had used terms like " natural law " to refer to that moral law which god had established in the universe and that operated among all men , christian or pagan 至少他们的确证明了基督徒用过像自然律这样的名词代表神在宇宙中所建立的、运行在所有基督徒与非基督徒当中的道德律。
