Paganism, by contrast, is very matriarchal, as goddesses play equally important roles as gods. With her short, dark brown hair, nose ring and woven blue-and-white sweater, Brice-Heames looks nothing ...

The carnation is one of January's birth flowers, ushering in the year with its slightly spicy scent and color variations.

The goddess ... the day was dark and cloudy it means the Cailleach would sleep and be unable to gather more would, therefore spring would surely arrive soon. Eventually, these pagan traditions ...

Dr Fiona Murphy says traditions like The Biddy on 1 February remind us of the threads that hold us together as a people.

From the Biddy boys and Brat Bríde to holy wells and Brigid's crosses, February 1st was marked with great gusto in old ...

This Marian shrine, however, had been preceded on Tepeyac hill by the pagan temple honoring the earth and fertility goddess, Tonantzin--our lady mother ... which seemed "a kind of Dark Age in Mexico." ...

By 2,000 BCE, cats had come to be highly revered by the ancient Egyptians by being associated with the goddess ... with dark forces. By the 12th century, many old pagan beliefs were being stamped ...

But Greeks who have grown up with the memory of Aphrodite can only gape at the American goddesses ... between passionate love named for a pagan god and spiritual love through which man imitates ...

“It’s called witch craft ,” they say emphatically. “You always end up picking up, like, a hundred hobbies because you'll have ...