The Wheel of the Year is a symbolic calendar used in various modern pagan and Wiccan ... often involving rituals to connect with the spirit world. Yule, or the Winter Solstice, occurs around ...

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 ...

Ivan Kupala is a pagan ritual celebrated in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus which originally marked the summer solstice But as Christianity came to the region it assimilated the celebrations and moved ...

Some of their monuments were aligned to precisely mark the summer solstice light (looking at you Stonehenge). Pagan celebrations ... the Midsummer Eve celebration in Sweden and Ivan Kupala Night ...