Easter is the Christian holiday that celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So the tradition goes, the ...

In our society, it sometimes seems that Easter has been reduced to a celebration of chocolate bunnies, fake grass and eggs.

The origins of the tax year are similarly ancient. The pagan calendar began on the winter solstice, and while the Normans were, like us, on the first-of-January team, there were 600 years in which ...

I ask, sounding disappointed. ““Well we do have a bonfire and feast for the Winter solstice,,” she offered. “But no, we don’t call ourselves a pagan group because we have people from all ...

Forlorn guide us track by track through the creation of their debut album 'Aether', out now via Church Road Records.

In Ireland, the spring equinox delivers a phenomenon to the Loughcrew Cairns in Co Meath that is very similar to the winter solstice event at Newgrange, also in Co Meath. The Loughcrew Megalithic ...

Confucian / Daoist / Buddhist February 1 Imbolc A Wiccan and pagan holiday sometimes referred to as Candlemas or Oimelc, symbolizing the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring ...

For centuries, pagan rituals have blended seamlessly with Christian practices ... In the territories of present Poland, winter has long symbolized death and observance. Thus, during the transition ...

The landmark became popular again in the twentieth century when modern British people and other enthusiasts revived pagan festivals at Stonehenge—spring and autumn equinox, and also summer and winter ...