Edinburgh's Calton Hill will be ablaze with fire this week as the Beltane Fire Festival signals the end of the dark months. The Iron Age Celtic ritual has been celebrated for thousands of years.

It offended my aesthetic sensibilities that there seemed to be no Pagan names for the summer solstice or the fall equinox equivalent to Yule or Beltane—so I decided to supply them. Kelly ...

Beltane is a Gaelic May Day celebration and is usually observed ... For thousands of years, people have observed the Celtic ritual from the Iron Age.In 1988, a group of ardent supporters revived ...

also called Beltane, is the next most significant, Berger said. Whereas Halloween is all about death, she said, May Day is a ...

So because these ideas and traditions had a lengthy history, Nazi propagandists were able to easily cast Christmas as a celebration of pagan German nationalism. A vast state apparatus (centered in ...

This calendar is not an exhaustive list either of religious or cultural traditions or of the holidays ... Buddhist May 1 Beltane Beltane, also known as May Day, is a celebration of the sexual union of ...

A celebration marking the first day of summer, the day's traditions are rooted in pagan festivals. What is celebrated today is believed to be a consolidation of three earlier festivals ...

Considered the birthplace of Halloween, celebrations in Ireland have origins dating back to ancient Pagan rituals thousands of years ago. A traditional food of Halloween in Ireland is barmbrack ...

Read on to learn how winter solstice traditions are celebrated across the globe. As with many modern celebrations, ancient festivals observing the winter solstice merged with newer winter solstice ...

This nine-night festival holds immense cultural and spiritual significance, and it is marked by various rituals and celebrations across the country. In 2024, Shardiya Navratri will commence on ...

Passover celebrations were accompanied by somber ... Passover this year clashed with the police over another traditional ritual: the burning of all the bread in their homes before the holiday ...