Long before it became a holiday dessert, the Yule cake held deep pagan roots tied to winter solstice celebrations. This fascinating origin story reveals how ancient rituals evolved into the sweet ...

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 ...

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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 ...

From the ancient seat of the Celtic High Kings to ... Newgrange was built so that during the winter solstice (dawn on the shortest day of the year), a narrow beam of sunlight illuminates the ...

Some speculate that the close proximity of the spring equinox to St. Patrick’s Day is due to a merging of ancient Celtic ... that is very similar to the winter solstice event at Newgrange ...

The custom of children drowning Morana is a testament to ancient traditions celebrating the arrival of spring, which have endured in various forms across Poland. For centuries, pagan rituals have ...

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 ... people ...

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 ...

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