Status Updates From Silence of the Gods: The Un...

[T]he use of folk culture to access and reconstruct the past becomes problematic long before the confabulation of such mythological epics, [i.e. the Romantic national epic of the Baltics] because it is based on controversial assumptions about the capacity of folklore, folk song and folk custom to preserve information from the deep past.

... What set places like [Lithuania, Sápmi, Tenerife, etc.] apart was that a cultural memory of pre-Christian religion did indeed interweave itself into popular religion, creating not just deviant ot eccentric popular Christianity but, in all likelihood, genuine creole religions that were neither truly Christianity not the pre-Christian religions that preceded it.