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

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

After reading about the Teotihuacan altar found in an ancient Maya city in Guatemala, learn about Moloch, the ancient pagan god of child sacrifice. Or, take a deeper dive into the history of human ...

Learn the basics of sundials, including how to build one. Discover why ancient peoples divided the night sky into sections, and more. On select Tuesday nights of each month at 8:00 PM central, guests ...

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 ...

Summer holidays were cancelled (as was a lot of human life, which is much worse). A volcanic winter said to have been caused by multiple eruptions cooled the atmosphere for years – causing a big ...

In the Southern Hemisphere, the opposite is true, with the June solstice marking the beginning of winter. The sunrise in Asheville on June 20 will be at 6:14 a.m., with sunset occurring at 8:48 p.m.

A magazine, Ver Sacrum, was launched in 1898. Its name referenced the sacred spring of an ancient pagan ritual of renewal. A dedicated exhibition space was built, which the art critic Ludwig Hevesi ...

Children celebrating Easter, with their Easter Bunnies and Easter eggs. Sanja Radin/Collection E+ via Getty Images ...

The Vinlanders relished a reputation for drinking, brawling and following a racist version of Odinism, a form of ancient paganism once practiced by Vikings. “Our beliefs stem from being deprived of ...