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Bookmark or Share- Yule 2024 - Celebrating the Winter Solstice - The Gypsy ThreadThis was seen as unique, as most pagan celebrations remained localized. Crossing regions was one thing, but crossing cultures was something very rare. Over time and distance, the chosen Gods might have changed, but the celebrations, which included sacrifices, drinking, feasting, and cleansing rituals, grew and became more specific over time by ...
- 2023 Pagan Calendar – Sabbats, Moon Cycles, Zodiac, and MoreThe 2023 pagan calendar includes traditional pagan celebration dates and times across many different belief systems. It also includes both full moon and new moon dates, and peak times. Additionally, other noteworthy astrological events, zodiac periods, Asatru, Celtic Tree months, and more.
- The Winter Solstice, Yule, and Christmas - Pagan Influences and EvolutionThe Anglo-Saxons were originally pagan inhabitants of modern day Great Britain. One of the ways they celebrated the solstice was by going out Wassailing. The solstice would be the first of 12 nights of revelry which included wassailing, which included healthy imbibing of wassail, an alcoholic drink made from apples, oranges, cloves, and other ...
- Thanksgiving’s Pagan Roots – The Secret in the SymbolsThe belief that merging pagan celebrations with Christian doctrine for the sake of converting people didn’t sit well with the common people, once they discovered it. Their religious beliefs as well as the austerity and difficulty of their lives in the rather primitive settlement, did not permit them the luxury of celebration.
- Witch’s Alphabet – The Language of Mysticism - The Gypsy ThreadRalph is a practicing witch, published author, pagan historian, webmaster, and collector of knowledge.He also owns an international creative writing website called The Creative Exiles,
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