[roamer_1]

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.

[xzins]

Nope. The word ‘sun’ will precede a religion about a ‘sun’.

Why?

Because the tower of Babel came after the flood, and they all had the common language handed down from Noah, and the languages were scrambled at Babel.

And Noah already had a word for sun....and he didn’t think the sun was god. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.