See first the number of gods in your God!

How are African, Asian, Amazonian cultures and religious aspirations still pagan to some others? Perhaps the eyes are closed against the Word which was present there with unfathomable richness and beauty.

There was no difficulty in celebration of the birth of the Sun God, and the rising Sun with a new meaning given in relation to Christ. Yahweh was a subordinate Canaanite god under the Most High God El, seen as an old man with a long beard and wings, the father of heaven and gods, and the head of the divine pantheon, and husband of Asherah. Among the gods, Yahweh’s work is to make things (One who makes what is made). He had a Bull head, and so his priests wore a headdress with horns. The children of El were collectively called as Elohim. In singular it can mean same as El or Eloa. Elohim could also mean simply powers like wind, water and fire. El roi was an Egyptian desert god who watches or sees. El Shaddai which means God Almighty who is a great/mighty warrior has Akkadian origin that meant God of the mountains, or God with breasts. Canaanites called him Baal-Hadad, the storm god who was a mountain deity. The patriarchs, worshiped Shaddai together with the Canaanite El. Adonai and Elohe Tzevaot of Phoenician origin were gods of armies. 

Remember the verses God creating, god appearing in the clouds, travelling on wind, God on the mountains, God leading armies... Those gods which once were called pagan were taken into Israel and to the Bible as attributed to a single deity where as they were different gods of the region. They were not simply some qualities of gods, but they were gods of the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Egyptians, Phenicians, Syrians…

These 'pagan' gods could enter into our concept of God, the Roman bureaucracy could become the form of Christian governance, and Christian way of worship could be modeled with adaptation of Greco-Roman rituals. Today when an attempt is made to see deeply into the community forms and religious aspirations of the indigenous people of the third world, they are condemned to be pagan worship. It is nothing other than a continued form of cultural colonialism.