
In the year 691 the emperor Justinian II convoked what has come to be known as the Quinsext Council.
Bishops from all over the Christian world gathered near Constantinople to pass 85 different canons, mostly of a disciplinary nature.
A clergyman may not own a tavern. No one may have a Jewish doctor or “consort with Jews in the baths.” It is forbidden to give communion to the dead.
Of special interest to pagans is Canon 65: It is prohibited to build New Moon bonfires.
New Moon bonfires.
In “a world lit only by fire,” the Moon is important. Nights are dark without the Moon. So when she comes back from her three-nights' sojourn in the Underworld, what you do?