Some people have real difficulty when they see it before them in black and white.
The word east, dawn, the rising sun, son is a basic human observation that has nothing to do with a pantheon of gods answer put together by a religion that has an ax to grind with another religion.
So I am to believe that ALL the days of the week are named for pagan gods, all the months of the year are named for pagan gods, but EAST, pointing to the morning star Venus (Eostre, the dawn godess), is not named after a pagan god?
And not only that, but the rites attached to that goddess are just coincidentally still practiced, virtually unchanged, but somehow invented whole cloth from another source?
Your position strains credulity. See syncretism, which the Roman church readily admits to. Your tradition comes from them.
....”sun, son is a basic human observation that has nothing to do with a pantheon of gods answer put together by a religion that has an ax to grind with another religion.”....
It is the “Son” that separates Christianity from all other religions....not SUN.
True Christianity serves the ‘only risen’ savior...all others worship those who are dead.