For the Vikings, Germanic tribes, and other pagan peoples of pre-Christian Europe, this celebration, known as Yule, was originally meant to honor the winter solstice. The Yule or Yuletide ...

Historians speculate this was done by the Emperor as a move to weaken established pagan celebrations that occurred around the Winter Solstice. The date wouldn’t be accepted by the Eastern Empire ...

chanting and singing pagan carols. This festival takes place in the northwestern corner of Pakistan over the winter solstice among the Kalasha people. A week long, it involves a series of ritual ...

Neo-pagan celebrations at Stonehenge gained popularity from the early C20th onwards. The summer solstice is an opportunity to celebrate the long summer days. The winter solstice reminds us that ...

(Fittingly, storks return to Europe from Africa about 9 months after the summer solstice.) After the founding of the Polish state and the simultaneous introduction of Christianity to its territory in ...

Many around the northern hemisphere will be attending winter solstice celebrations. The winter solstice begins the pagan festival of Yule - but the astrological phenomena has been observed by ...

The UK’s most famous site for solstice celebrations ... On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan ...