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Every October, as nights grow longer and leaves turn gold, many people wonder where our Halloween traditions truly come from. Beneath the pumpkins and costumes lies a festival far older and deeply rooted in Celtic culture: Samhain, the ancient celebration that marked the Celtic New Year and inspired much of what we now call Halloween….
Samhain (pronounced “SAH-win”) marks the threshold between the light half and dark half of the year. For ancient Celtic communities, Samhain traditions started at the end of the harvest: when livestock were counted, stores were sealed, and the veil between worlds was said to grow thin. If you’re new to Samhain, think of it as…
Midsummer marks the longest day of the year and has long been a moment of spiritual and agricultural importance across Europe. In Norse pagan culture, summer was a time of life, light, and fertility: a brief but vital season in the northern world. But did the ancient Norse truly celebrate a solstice festival? And how…
The summer solstice (when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky) has long been a time of celebration. While ancient cultures like the Romans or the Norse left behind detailed records of Summer Solstice festivals, the Celts didn’t. Still, clues from archaeology, mythology, and folklore help us piece together how important this turning…
Have you ever asked yourself if there is anything such as “the Norse wheel of the year”? or what the Viking calendar looked like? Unlike our modern Gregorian calendar, the year was divided into two seasons only: Summer and Winter. Although the Sun had a pretty important role in their lives, Vikings used the moon phases to keep track of time…
Many of the popular holidays celebrated nowadays have their roots on different Pagan holidays and celebrations. As Christmas gets closer, it is a good time to learn more about the Pagan origins of this popular celebration. There are two main Pre-Christian celebrations that are believed to be the predecessors of Christmas: the Roman holiday of…
Lughnasadh, Lughnasa or Lammas is one of the eight Celtic holidays and the last of the Summer. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s celebrated on the 1st of August of the Gregorian Calendar or on the full moon next to this date, as in the Celtic calendar, where the phases of the moon were very important….
