>>1852898>Perhaps Paganism had failed the local population and they'd moved on and the 'destruction' you mention was actually neglect and rot. Literally not possible. Paganism is not a religion, it is just tradition. Scandinavian pagans did not have a name for their "faith" or even consider it a faith at all; what we consider paganism today was actually a set of traditions, stories, pseudoscientific explanations of natural phenomena, etc. that were simply part of daily life. The separation of one's spiritual life and one's mundane life was a concept introduced to Europe by Christians.
Europeans do not and never did celebrate Yule or Midsummer or Eostre because of religion, but because they are simply rituals of tradition. As such, it is impossible by definition for paganism to fail a people, because it is constantly evolving to adapt to the environment (because traditions are simply a distilled form of what previous generations did successfully), and cannot be thought of on the same level as a dogmatic faith like Christianity or Islam etc.
