[Petronski]

And calling such a "festival" by a pagan deity's name. How odd.

No more odd than insisting we worship on the day named for worship of the pagan god Saturn.

[safisoft]

No more odd than insisting we worship on the day named for worship of the pagan god Saturn.

Ah, but we don't. We keep the Sabbath, or Shabbat in Hebrew. We call it the "Seventh day" [yom ha-sh'vi'i] or "Shabbat" - we would never correlate it to the name of a pagan deity. I always wondered if this was in the Vulgate, or in the New Jerusalem Bible:

And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth. Exodus 23:13