This ancient festival traces back to pagan ... the Yule celebration, connecting us to a lineage of human experience stretching back through the mists of time. The winter solstice, the astronomical ...

What is the origin of Easter eggs? Katie Morrow, CC BY-NC-ND Brent Landau, The University of Texas at Austin The date of ...

EOSTRE: The naming of the celebration seems to go back to a pre-Christian goddess in England who was celebrated at beginning of spring. STOCK PHOTO ...

Many of the ancient Church fathers found an additional reason to celebrate Passover. They believed that Jesus was born on ...

“We have crafted ‘Aether’ to embody the essence of pagan ritual, with each track honouring the ... which begins at Samhain (the Witches New Year) and peaks at the Winter Solstice. During this phase, ...

This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival ...

The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory ...

A two-day festival will celebrate the pagan festival of Litha ... the festival – now known as Midsummer or the summer solstice – was held throughout the Northern Hemisphere to mark the ...