To learn more about the local Pagan community and how they celebrate Winter Solstice each December, begin by imagining an ...

Roman Pagan celebrations in December hold major similarities to modern-day Christmas festivities, but how did they come to be?

Today is Christmas Day, a connection to some of the most ancient of all known northern European shamanic traditions. Like ...

But it had ostensibly respectable origins in Scandinavian mythology, as a means of peace enforcement. The story goes that ...

With its focus on the power of art to bring people together, the project’s inspiration includes mythological paintings in our collection that show classical scenes of joyful procession and acts of ...

Wreaths became a popular Christmas decoration during the 19th century and are often lavishly decorated with evergreen, berries, dried fruits and baubles. They are traditionally hung outside on the ...

In the first of the “Remember the Sabbath Day” series, we established that the true Sabbath day is Saturday, the seventh day, not Sunday, which is the first day of the week. This was confirmed by ...

Bells in both pagan and Christian traditions ... According to legend, the gods used mistletoe to resurrect Odin’s son Baldur from the dead. So Baldur’s mother Frigg, the goddess of love, made the ...

Easter was nothing more that a festival celebrated in honor of the goddess Astarte ... other sons of God in the ancient world ...

Today, his understanding of God, the world, and salvation seems to be that of a theosophist or a neo-gnostic -- though he continues to consider himself a Christian. The Pagan Christ (Thomas ... Mary ...

It was celebrated by women in honor of the goddess of the harvest and agriculture, Demeter, and Dionysus, the god of wine and ...

Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.