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 ...

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 ...

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

and peaks at the Winter Solstice. During this phase, the Earth withdraws inside herself and we enter the dark months of hibernation and reflection, so that we may be reborn once more in Spring. Matrum ...

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

In 1790, the local parson tried to stop the custom due to its pagan associations ... The idea that the witches of winter should be banished at Easter is a common European folk motif, appearing ...