Period Pagan Christmas Carols?

[I. Marc Carlson]

<Fionnuala<susanhk at mail.utexas.edu (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik)>>
>Well, many of them have pretty pagan symbolism left over, even if they are
>now *Christmas* carols.  That's the beauty of folk customs; they often
>survive little things like dogma.

I tend to look at the Holidays like Thankgiving and Christmas as being
neither Christian nor Pagan, but rather children of a mixed marriage.

Diarmuit