Interesting Nomenclature for Nations
Russia - Motherland
Germany - Fatherland
USA - Homeland
most others vive le "country"
Jesus' Birth was used by the Popes to coopt all the Pagan celebrations around winter solstice into the church. The church itself was the mechanism to unify and eventually rule the empire. The church absorbed every other religious hierarchy or forced them underground. Infiltration, corruption, coopt the norms is nothing new.