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 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 ...

In Viking myth, for instance, the goddess Rán, mother of the waves ... the hedonistic frenzy-inducing pagan god of the woods and orgies, hinting at society’s fear of Dionysian urges and passions. The ...

Ancient Greeks commonly used hawthorn branches in weddings, and they represent fertility in some Pagan traditions ... bloomed from the tears of the goddess Astraea (associated with the September ...

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

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." ...

Christianity in Ireland, as it did so often, wove itself into these older threads, transforming Brigid the goddess into Brigid the saint. And so the Biddy remained, carrying echoes of pagan roots ...

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 ...

Braving the frigid wind tunnels in midtown Manhattan on Saturday, Feb. 1, participants heading to this annual celebration at ...