On the Roman religious calendar, the month of April (Aprilis) was in general dedicated to deities who were female or...
traditions
Many do not know that there was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a...
Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is a public holiday in some countries. But why we observe...
Every Easter, children in several part of our planet rush around their homes and gardens searching for chocolate eggs and,...
In Rome and in Greece, in this period, the Pleiades were remembered, and predictions were made on the illnesses of...
Today, March 31, in ancient Rome, the foundation of Luna's temple, the moon goddess, on the Aventine Hill, was remembered....
Easter is the most important feast day in the Christian calendar. Regularly observed from the earliest days of the Church,...
In the last several centuries before the fall of the Roman Empire (476 A.D.), Roman devotees of the goddess Cybele...
Not even death put an end to the luxurious lifestyles of some of Manila’s wealthy Chinese residents. Here, in the...
On March 17 the Romans celebrated Liberalia with sacrifices, processions, ribald and gauche songs, and masks which were hung on...
Bacchus was a Roman agricultural god who was associated with the harvest, particularly that of grapevines. The son of Jupiter...
Julius Caesar was warned by a seer that harm would befall him before the end of the Ides of March,...
In ancient Roman religion, the Mamuralia or Sacrum Mamurio ("Rite for Mamurius") was a festival held on this day, March...
March 5 was the date of an annual, ancient Roman, nautical religious festival called Navigium Isidis, literally “Vessel of Isis”,...
In Ireland and Wales, the annual Feast of Rhiannon is celebrated by some still today in honor of the Celtic/Welsh...
Of Norse origin, Ceadda was a deity connected to sacred, healing and underground waters and therefore also to springs and...
March, spring month par excellence, marked the beginning of the Roman year, which did not end in winter, like ours....
Every full moon has at least one nickname, dating back to the days when Native American tribes and Colonial Americans...
The Caristia, also called Cara Cognatio, was one of several days in February that Ancient Romans honored family or ancestors....
In Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr, a type of...
Lupercalia was one of the most ancient of the Roman holidays, one of the feriae listed on ancient calendars from...
In the Victorian era, and also into the 20th century, lovers exchanged elaborate lace-trimmed cards on Valentine’s Day, expressing their...
In history there were multiple St. Valentines (including decapitated ones) but, apparently, was a medieval poet who first established the...
The Romans held their dead in great respect. They were "di manes", the "good" dead, or honoured ancestors never to...
The "Sin-Eater" is a profession that survived until the last century: in short, grieving family members of a recently deceased...
In these days, from 7 to 17 February, ancient Romans were celebrating agricultural festivals of Fornacalia. It was a festivity...
February 3th is the day dedicated to the holy protector of the throath, Saint Biagio (known in English as Saint...
Candlemas, also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed...
Groundhog Day, on February 2, claim that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day sees its shadow...
Imbolc is a holiday with a variety of names, depending on which culture and location you’re looking at. For istance,...
