 Complete the following phrase:  One of the main problems with any kind of historical inquiry into pagan ritual, lifestyle, and beliefs systems of this time is that they are predomitly told from the Christian clerical perspective. What was written by clerics and scribes as pagan belief in those times is incredibly hard to discern, especially from an ethnic outlook, as most of the people who populated much of the Franco-Germanic region had vastly different systems of belief even within Christianity. And even as Roman classicism flourished in the Carolingian manuscript annals, pagan mysticism also became part of the over-arching narrative within Christian thought. Much of what was going on during this time was an enculturation of ideas; a cross-blending of faiths, where many of the pagans infused elements of Christianity into their own belief system and vice versa. One of the main reasons for why the Carolingian cross looks the way it does stems from many facets of cultural misunderstanding, not only on the part of pagan converts to the Christian faith, but also because Carolingian allegorical writers were using the historical work of Virgil and others to re-interpret Germanic pagan belief systems. Interpretation was a major focal point of Christian mythology and pagan stories like Virgils epic of the 