Hard one rides a bull thought if it helps... long ponder on this one.

I managed to get the card in, with weirdly the second choice not the main, so i put collections first then I did the religious one, it's not exactly pagan, but it is more suited to pagan, although well I duno...   never talk about polotics or religion   hmm Perhaps a new just Religion Catagory, there are hundreds out there? Mind you all the holley misstletoe, holiday trees and wreaths, have his head in them over the net... so clueless for me

Mithra is part of Zoroastrianism, which is Persian. Also, the ancient Romans had a cult based on it. I bring it up only to help sort out catagory placement: to some Pagan means anything not Christian, to others it is a specific kind of moddern Wicca/mother Godess worship. I think Pagan fits as well as the Christmas/other religion... Nobody knows when Jesus was born & they picked Mithra's birthday for all the similarities shown above. Mithra's birthday was thought to be the winter solstisce before more accurate atrological methods of measurment were available, and the symbology of a light coming in the darkest, coldest part of the year is part of why it falls there. so Pagan holidays solstice/yule, or even seasons/ winter would work too.