Re: Albanian Christian religious terminology

>So I'm not insidiously fighting some rear guard action
>here (:=)).

Awright, awright, there was no insinuation whatsoever. :-)

>is that which derives "CRACIUN" from the Latin
>"CREATIO".

Yes, this is the main hypothesis. The next one is
COLLATIO. Both of them are quite old hypotheses.
A third one refers to the meaning "log" in connection
with the solstice fire or so. (I don't know whethere
there are few or many people attracted by speculations
re. the 3rd hypothesis; I only heard a Romanian scholar,
Cicerone Poghirc, talk of it on the radio.)

>in the 630's professed a primitive kind of
>Christianity of the Arian type, and were "converted"
>to Catholicism by the efforts of Pope John IV. I

[I keep wondering why the usage of Catholicism for
such periods of time as the 7th c. (way long before
the Schism).]

>(including Arian elements)

Perhaps.

George