Really close, but off by one part: paganism is not an inclusive term. It's an exclusive term. Rather than groups (originally) agreeing they are pagans, Christians decided anything not Christian is pagan. The modern meaning of pagan is euro-centric because that's where Christianity took hold. The Norse and the Celtic and the Baltic and the Germanic "pagans" likely would not see themselves as on the same side of the argument against Christians. Grouping pagans together is like grouping barbarians together across the world. Literally, because barbarian is also a derogatory term. (bar-bar was the racist interpretation of foreign language by the Greeks and then Romans)

The meaning is shifted now because of 2000 years of Christian erasure. So sure, it might now be that Pagan is an equivalent type of term as Christian, covering many groups that identify themselves as their parent term, but that's not the historical context. That makes a difference when talking about the actual history.

isn't this Brigid's symbol?

Maybe our customs are different. Usually this situation is very short and by the time you hangbthe sign, the person would already be transferred to the morgue. I lived in a similar situation where we had a family member die by night and by the time we reached in the early morning we went directly to a specific cleansing area. So it is very obvious what is going there.

We are Muslims and time from death to burial usually takes less than 24 hours.

Wiccans and Neo-Druids are not Celtic Pagans. They are new age spiritualist nonsense.

Celtic Reconstructionism is the only “authentic” Celtic Pagan religion, based on surviving historical information rather than making up bits and using Celtic flavouring.

Ohhh. I was looking only at the big circle.

I learned that in children's hospital's, the symbol is a butterfly. I could never look at a butterfly quite the same way after that.

"why would the person's mind not be recycled into something else"

Why would it be?

Nonsense.

Then why do they put those door handle holes in the signs?

That woild be St Brigid's cross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid's_cross

Newgrange is essentially my holy place, and I hope to see it one day. Mythology or not, to stand where the Tuatha De Danaan are said to have inhabited and are now laid to rest would be otherworldly.

They're not my current brand of spirituality, but they set me on the path long ago.

Because why tf do we have the idea that we are somehow so special, that we don't fall under the same laws as everything else.

The mind just has to be some metaphysical bullshit. Nah, it's just material science we don't understand due to our own flaws.

You are right about that. But I didn't talk about history and how it effectively was deragotary term, as didn't find it relevant in this context.

"Pagan" became to mean non-christian, but afaik originally it meant "person from the countryside" - lat. paganos I believe (also see: heathen - person from the heath) - so people living in vilages and such, who took longer to convert from the old faith.

Anyway, as other commenter said somewhere here, these religions usually didn't have names historically that we know of. It was simply the religion to the people. Moreover, the religion was not centralized. The various tribes, even villages could have differences and their local gods that were worshipped. So yeah, christians came up with the umbrela term and yeah, it was developed as an insult basically. But it's what we have as a name for these religions.

I didn't find it relevant as modern day pagans mostly embraced the term and I don't think it holds same negative conotations as it did in the past.

Ill bet 100 quatludes they did not.

Ireland has a sizeable Catholic population, and Catholicism has a habit of subsuming local pagan traditions and gods and reworking them as their own.

Isn’t this one of the items you get in Zelda, Skyword Sword? Or maybe OoT?

Celtic isn't a region though, it's an ethnic group and a language family. "Celtic paganism" typically refers to one of two things: the spiritual beliefs and practices of the historical Celtic civilizations, or the modern reconstruction based on it. It's fairly specific in that respect.

"Pagan" alone is a large umbrella, and most modern pagans will acknowledge that, but often they'll differentiate themselves as "Celtic pagan" or "Norse pagan" or "Greek pagan" or whathaveyou.

But historically, there wasn't much of a point to naming one's religion, because even if they had contact with different cultures, they were distinguished by their ethnic groups/language families, and their religion was as indistinguishable from those things as any other aspect of culture.

That was long before the modern day, when civilizations now have more heterogeneity and thus distinctions such as language, culture, ethnicity, religion, cuisine, etc., each refer to unique sets of characteristics that can blend in various ways within a multicultural society in a globalized world.

The term "pagan" originally meant "anything other than christian." Maybe before that it meant something like "country bumpkin," referring to people who lived outside the cities and major towns. The meaning changed as population centers converted faster than rural areas.

It originated in Europe though, so obviously it's more deeply rooted in European paganism and other cultures that had close contact, like Egypt and Anatolia.

Further removed cultures probably didn't/don't think of themselves as pagan. For example, a Shinto priest probably doesn't call himself pagan. There's no cultural reason to.

But that sorta breaks down when you look at post-colonized cultures, where the cultural cross-pollination lent the word pagan to their cultural identity. For instance, some followers of Native American spirituality refer to themselves as pagan. It's a way of reclaiming the term, which was originally used to exclude and oppress them, but now it just frightens christians. A lot of people who call themselves pagan use the term that way deliberately.

It's called reconstructionism, and it's not uncommon in neopagan communities. Most of them are pretty honest with themselves about the limitations of their knowledge. It's not fraudulent at all.

Anyway, Roman accounts are one source we have for studying celtic culture, but it's not the only one. There's also archaeology. There's some of the mythology that survived. There are old Celtic stories that got christianized by the clerics who recorded them for the first time. There are surviving superstitions and folklore that some ethnologists recorded in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Each of those things provides insights into the beliefs and practices of the pre-christian Celtic civilizations. None of them are a full or a complete picture, nor even all of them together. But if each one together clarifies the picture a little more.

There's always a limit to how much we can know about prehistoric cultures (in the sense that they had no writing system until converting to christianity). But that doesn't mean it's pointless to study them.

No, no, you see, it was designed by the Trisquel Project as the logo for their Linux distribution based on a deblobbed kernel /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory

Ah, thank you. For some reason I had the goddess Brigid associated with the triskele and maiden/mother/crone but there's so much overlap nowadays between goddess and saint that it's hard to find reliable sources on what was who.

24 hours? That's not nearly enough time to fully exploit the family's grief for as much money as possible.

Sometimes not even enough for geographically far relatives to come for a last visit.

Well, yeah, there's that, too, but will no one think about the MONEY? Raping a family's grief is an American tradition!

I have zero terror management. I am actively panicking every day, because I believe I don't get to stay dead, which is the problem.

At the vet I've seen a candle that they light when someone brings in their pet to be put down. It lets other patients know the terrible suffering the family is going through and allows them to be respectful to that. I'm guessing this symbol serves a similar purpose.

Have you heard of an Irish wake? Traditionally they would throw a big party celebrating the life of a lost loved one and everyone would hang out with the body for 1-2 days

I've never seen one. Basing my question on the laminated display. Ifvtheybhave a big deck of door handle signs, then of course it is very quick.

is that Trisquel GNU/Linux?

I was gonna say, it looks like the emblem of the city Triskellian from Ironclaw. I guess, that’s not surprising after all. 😅