[davidmartin]

Just wondered what you made of this, an ancient Christian writer in the 4th century mentioned some pagan temples were evangelised by early Christians in the following manner

He said the temple of Hera received this greeting:
"Mistress Pege, the great Sun has sent me to make the announcement to you, and at the same time to serve you in your giving birth—as he produces blameless offspring with you, who are becoming mother of the first of all ranks of being, bride of the single divinity with three names. And the child born without seed is called the Beginning and the End: the beginning of salvation, and the end of destruction"

The temple recorded a debate:
"The females say to the males, disparaging the matter, Pege is she who was loved; for it was not Hera, was it? She espoused a carpenter.' And the males say, 'She has rightly been called Pege, we admit. But her name is Myria; for she bears in her womb, as in the sea, a vessel conveying a myriad. And if she is also Pege, let it be understood thus: This stream of water sends forth a perennial stream of spirit; it contains but a single fish, taken with the hook of divinity, and with its own flesh sustaining the whole world, while it dwells there as though in the sea. You have well said, "She has a carpenter"—but not a carpenter whom she bears from a marriage-bed. For this carpenter who is born, the child of the chief carpenter, framed by his most sagacious skill the triple-constructed celestial roof, and established by his word this dwelling with its triple habitations"

It could point to a more compatible earlier Christian ideal that hoped to sort of rededicate some of the temples to fit in Jesus with pagan thought rather than replace them which is what happened, sadly, and was different perhaps from what the first Christians intended.
It could lend support to those who are 'Christo-pagan' today I guess or just curious. I've never come anything else like this in my travels, it's pretty unique