Is the cross Pagan?
Well, the actual crucifix would have been shaped like a “T”, so the cross is something other than a symbol of the Crucifixion. They could not use the T, though, since it was already a sign for the death and resurrection of Dionysus/Bacchus, the god of wine. I think if this when I see the vines in their dormancy, their little T shaped forms hanging on their lines as they have for over 10,000 years. The god of wine was celebrated since the earliest ages of agriculture – there is evidence some of the first items mankind began to cultivate were grape vines. The wine god was a cyclical agricultural god – he died at the end of the season, but was reborn each spring and the communion we celebrate now is based on the services for the wine god. His original celebration would have included the sacrifice of a human victim who was held in great honor and celebrated like some kind of fabulous religious homecoming king before being ritually killed and eaten like most early cyclical agricultural cele
