Anne Rice. The Vampire Lestat (№ 356546)

First of all you must realize the following. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the adherents of the Christian religion declared all the ancient pagan gods are demons. After centuries, it is useless even to try to explain to them that their Christ is not who other, as the same God of the forests and groves, the dying and resurrecting, as it did to him and the Dionysus or Osiris. And that the mother is the same Great Mother, worshiped for centuries. A new era has begun, and with it came new convictions and beliefs. We were seen as devils, not connected with what is now believed people. The ancient knowledge was forgotten or understood differently.