History boffins have noticed an increase in paganism across the UK, with them putting this down to one key reason – ...
A growing number of Britons who leave Christianity are turning to paganism or other forms of spiritualism instead of ...
On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people took a walk through grassy fields to a remote Bronze Age stone circle ...
Here’s a breakdown of the origin of the Christmas Tree and which culture is credited with the Christmas tree traditions we ...
Some atheists have stated that Christmas was simply copied from Grecco-Roman pagan holidays like Saturnalia, but that is ...
Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born, and when Christians started ...
Christianity remains the most popular faith to move into, with 36 per cent questioned reporting becoming a Christian or ...
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The Pagan Origins of Christmas

If you’ve ever decorated a Christmas tree and thought, “This feels a little too magical to be strictly Christian,” ...
Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...
Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...
As autumn proves and Robert Frost reminds us, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” In October, daylight wanes, fields empty and much of the Northern Hemisphere turns itself towards full blown memento mori. All of ...