A datapoint for your alternative American history - https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lord-of-misrule-thomas-mortons-american-subversions
Thomas Morton attempted to found an explicitly "pagan" colony in Massachusetts in 1626. He was rounded up and sent back to England by Myles Standish only a couple of years later. Standish was not impressed by the Maypole, nor by the fact that Morton encouraged intermarriage between the colonists and the native Algonquins.
That Public Domain website actually has a lot of really interesting things in it!
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Date: 2020-12-28 05:02 pm (UTC)https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lord-of-misrule-thomas-mortons-american-subversions
Thomas Morton attempted to found an explicitly "pagan" colony in Massachusetts in 1626. He was rounded up and sent back to England by Myles Standish only a couple of years later. Standish was not impressed by the Maypole, nor by the fact that Morton encouraged intermarriage between the colonists and the native Algonquins.
That Public Domain website actually has a lot of really interesting things in it!
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