STONEHENGE has become synonymous with the summer solstice, attracting thousands of people to watch the sun rise over the stones each year. While pagan traditions and rituals performed at the site ...

THE summer solstice celebrates the longest day of the year. And the solstice has been marked with rituals since pagan times.

Other pagan traditions included setting large wheels on fire and rolling them down a hill into a body of water. Fun. According to historian Ronald Hutton, Professor of History at the University of ...

Summer solstice 2022 has arrived. ... Summer solstice 2022: Sensual traditions on the longest day of the year ... the pagan solstice got co-opted by Christianity and rebranded as St. John’s Day.

In Greece, an ancient ritual called Klidonas coincides with the Summer Solstice.A village's unmarried women place a personal item in a pot, leave it beneath a fig tree overnight, and take turns ...

Local Summer Solstice celebrations. In addition to the large events at major sites such as Stonehenge, many more Pagans hold small ceremonies in open spaces, everywhere from gardens to woodlands.

For centuries, humanity has celebrated the event with pagan rituals that involve feasts, bonfires, dances and singing to reconnect with nature and the magic of summer. 02 de 07 Midsummer, Sweden ...

In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs around June 20-21 each year, when the sun reaches 0° of the zodiac sign of Cancer.In the southern hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs at ...

Part of Druidic traditions, the winter solstice is considered a time of death and rebirth. Newgrange, a prehistoric monument built in Ireland around 3200 BC, is associated with the Alban Arthan ...

Winter solstice traditions and celebrations. It's no surprise many cultures and religions celebrate a holiday -- whether it be Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or pagan festivals -- that coincides ...

Winter solstice 2022, the shortest day of year and the official first day of winter, is today (well, for a decent chunk of the world anyway). How this all works has fascinated people for thousands … ...