A beautiful but lesser-known tradition in Belarus involves whispering one's deepest desires to trees within its ancient ...

sets precisely between two of the pyramids on the summer solstice. The Incas of South America celebrated the corresponding winter solstice with a ceremony called Inti Raymi, which included food ...

(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 ...

Spectators cheered and applauded as the sun rose over the neolithic site in southwest England at the winter solstice, a pagan celebration that is believed to have been observed there for ...

Back then, people living in Britain were pagan ... in the same kind of rituals and traditions that may have happened at the site for thousands of years. Around the summer solstice, people living ...

Every year around the summer solstice, Swedes gather to celebrate ... Rooted in ancient pagan traditions, this celebration honors the arrival of summer and the fertility of the Earth.

Honoring Saint Lucia (aka Saint Lucy), this festival incorporates pagan winter solstice ... solstice ceremony, which is led by a tribal chief, the sun is welcomed back to its summer path with ...

The summer solstice is almost here ... The tradition us thought to date back to a pagan festival celebrating fertility and the triumph of light over dark. People who follow druidic traditions ...

The summer solstice will occur on June 20, 2025, at 7:41 p.m. PST. It's derived from the Latin word solstitium. Or to put it in another way: solstice means "sun stands still." Yule is a Pagan ...

From then onwards the days become increasingly long leading up to the Summer ... Solstice celebrations and festivals to list. The first that springs to the minds of many is the Christian ...