While some Christians today are wary even of Christmas traditions that seem a little too pagan, in theologically progressive Mainline Christian circles, winter solstice services — particularly ...

Honoring Saint Lucia (aka Saint Lucy), this festival incorporates pagan winter ... Today, traditional music, dancing and performances add to their festive winter solstice traditions.

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 ...

For this reason, pagan and druid communities actually celebrate the first sunrise after the winter solstice. Traditionally, the winter solstice was a time when cattle were slaughtered, to save ...

Special access is allowed to the ancient Stonehenge monument during the solstice The winter solstice sunrise ... which people tie ribbons to. This is a pagan tradition known as "wishing trees ...