What is May Day? How to celebrate the spring holiday with pagan origins
May Day ushers in summer and is an important cross-quarter day − just like Halloween − falling midway between an equinox and ...
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The spooky origins of Halloween
Regardless though, folks who are comfortable with Halloween will argue for its pagan origins, and will say that the things that are celebrated at Halloween are representative of things that are not ...
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The Collision with Paganism
How would this rather unusual claim [of a resurrected Messiah] or message have fallen on the average pagan ear ... through all of Christian history.... What did the neighbors think about the ...
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The astonishing pagan origin of Christmas
Discover a century of film at the Academy Museum, home to 52 million objects bringing cinematic history to life. BBC Click explores the latest technology being trialled in Australia to preserve ...
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The Empire's Religions
Paganism is our designation for what ninety-something percent of the people in the Mediterranean were doing. Jews are a visible minority, and then, everybody is doing lots of other things ...
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History of Mardi Gras: The origins of Carnival and how it’s celebrated around the world
The origins of Mardi Gras are hotly contested and ... However, thousands of years ago it is thought to have originated from a tradition of Pagan festivals that mark the beginning of spring and ...
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Let the flames rise! Christmas tree's fiery origins, pagan roots
Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the centre of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition. But these ...