Yes it's true I did leave decades ago but that is the kind of memorial talk I heard every year until the late eighties. Fortunately at Easter time my little girl didn't have to listen to this story of bloody torture as I did. She simply had chocolate eggs and fluffy bunnies to think about !
Give me pagan fertility religions any day! Were they all about sex? Actually no they were mainly about food. They asked the gods and godesses to bless their crops and their animals. If your crops failed and your animals failed to produce offspring this year you and your family might die of starvation.
These were people on the edge who were at the mercy of the weather and disease without knowing what controlled these forces. To be honest although science has taught us so much, to some extent it is the same for modern-day farmers except they don't ask the gods for help.
