"Norway and the Nordic countries have a pagan heritage to be somewhat proud of. A heritage that few have been aware of," says ...

The Nazi regime’s fascination with the occult has long captivated and horrified people in equal measure. The idea that one of ...

Although he would not become famous for his Jewish work until some thirty years later, Oppenheim painted one of his most famous works, Return of a Jewish Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His F ...

A look at the curved oval iconic representation of Shiva Lingam placed on a globular base which is found in the Sanctum Sanctorum Garbhagraha of all Shiva temples has given rise to diverse explanation ...

For the Pompeii helmet, Olshanetsky argues the palm frond was linked to other cultures including the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Christians, while the griffin was a pagan symbol, according to ...

Between Christian symbols and pagan heritages, here's a look back ... The Easter Bunny has its origins in Germanic and Anglo-Saxon traditions. In these cultures, the hare was a symbol of fertility ...

For many years, I could not ask myself why human relief had to be achieved in a fashion at once so pagan and so desperate ... bleakly, that the German Jews had probably believed similar ...

symbols. Hand drawn isolated set of pagan... E letter logo. Medieval drop caps alphabet. Initials made of spiral Celtic beasts, snake, dragon. Gothic illuminated calligraphy. Gothic illuminated ...

In pagan cultures, eggs were symbols of fertility In Middle Ages ... Historians suspect the Easter egg hunt dates to the late 16th century, when Martin Luther, the German theologian who helped birth ...

OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day. On March 5, Orthodox Christians honor the memory of the ...