Pagan Festival
A pagan festival is a celebration related to a special celebration of a calendar of pagan tradition, even purely oral, that may be related to a god, such guardianship or to mark a natural event seasonal, meteorological or astronomical particular.
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Festivals of natural cycles
Some festivals are related to the late great works of harvest , and help celebrate in luxury lofts refilled. It can also be hosting the resurgent light ( Imbolc February 2) or celebrate fertility ( Beltaine May 1).
Celebration of the Vernal Equinox
Different survivals of celebration of the equinox of spring, around March 21, has existed or still exist today. Bonfires or drowning light of that era, which uses it manifested in a variety of forms, but above the same initial thought: the liberation of the winter darkness France
A Aubusson) , the workers threw the upholsterers' evenings to water "by floating over the water a small boat or a board filled with lit candles. Once the lights have disappeared over the horizon, the vigils were considered finished and the congregation celebrated the event by copious libations. This custom persisted until 1914. In Moselle at Metz and the surrounding area, children are floating walnut shells filled with oil and wicks impregnated on, accompanying them on air " It was a small ship. In the Ardennes is a hoof shod with a candle that is meant by the phrase "make the water peak" or "drown Couperon", the lantern being Couperon oil evenings winter. A Gerardmer and Fraize in the Vosges , March 11 at night, we carved a big rave in a skull that is internally illuminated, and the day before the last vigil of the season, it was installing on a fountain where young people do fall in the fenced before receiving the bucket of water that guards invisible and placed on the watch, reserved for players clumsy In Switzerland A Islikon , Swiss village in the commune of Gachnang ( Thurgau ) continues the tradition of Sunday Laetare , construction of light wood and paper from a small colored tower sitting on a raft of boards, including transparencies with the symbols of stars, lit candles and an inscription "Fort mit Licht" ("light go!"). Everything is put on the water and the current causes the rafts while the congregation sings in chorus: "The brook burns / It is all of Islikon who lit / It is all of Chefikon that the turn off / With their one hundred thousand frogs " , , Uses related to Liberalia In ancient Rome was celebrated March 17 Liberalia , the Liberal and uses similar to that currently found in Poland , in Romania , in Yugoslavia and Ukraine. So we throw or cast a honey cake in the lobby of an altar dedicated to Bacchus or his equivalent, with a drink for the fertility of the vine and wheat, as the cake was made of honey, flour and oil Other festivals of spring equinox The summer solstice marks the new year in the ancient Egypt. At Stonehenge , thousands of people gather to celebrate the transition to summer. The feast of Saint John in France, where they dance around a bonfire is also a celebration of the Summer Solstice. The winter solstice is also associated with a holiday in many cultures: Saturnalia Roman , the feast Germano-Scandinavian Jul , Kwanzaa for some African-American , Sol Invictus , Christmas. In the neo-paganism , the celebrations of the solstices correspond to important religious festivals in the movements Druidic and Wiccan . In temperate crops, the solstices - like the equinoxes - are often used to define the seasons: they serve to delimit the beginning of summer and winter, or to mark the middle of those two seasons. In Provencal, Christmas is said; nouvou who also want to say again. Celebrating the Summer Solstice
Celebrating the Autumn Equinox
Winter Solstice Celebration
Celtic religious festival
Religious holidays Roman
Hindu Festival
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