This question was inspired by an earlier post about the movie The Green Knight, the director of which has explicitly stated is about the triumph of wild pagan nature over the dreary orderliness of Christian civilization.

The linking of paganism to environmentalism has always struck me as modern revisionism especially since nature for ancient people’s was a far more frightening force than we understand it today.

I know that reconstructing original pagan thought is pretty difficult, which feels like a answer in and of itself, hence my second question about how and when this connection developed.