After reading this question and asking several pagans via e-mail and searching the web I can honestly say no practicing Pagan that I know or can find has ever heard of this festival. My suggestion would be to verify that whoever you heard of this from is indeed a Pagan or is it just a locally named festival involving local Pagans.
No. Unless that ritual was a Wiccaning, you are pretty much as you always have been. As I explain to visitors at our gatherings... Standing in a Pagan Circle does not make you Pagan any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
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a pagan ritual. The Rite of Spring is likely based on the pagan ceremonies at the time the ballet was written.
It was a ritual that i had to open my presents on Christmas
IT was firstly the fesival of All Hallows Eve which pre dates christianity and is classed as a pagan festival.This was celebrated by Celtic People of Ireland, Scotland, Wales Cornwall in southern Engand and areas of Britanny
When either or both of the people getting married are practitioners of a Pagan Pathway it is appropriate for the proposal to be of a pagan nature. The marriage or "hand-fasting" may then be preformed by a pagan High Priestess &/or High Priest (if it is to be legally binding be sure that one of those people performing the ritual is recognised by the local authority). The Ritual may also be performed by a High Priestess/Priest and a recognised legal person (Justice of the Peace, Judge, Minister etc), or you may have two rituals, one Pagan, one secular). If either or both of the people being engaged are pagan but not yet "out if the broom closet" the proposal may be pagan but the marriage may not necessarily be. See the above options and add just a non-pagan service with friends and family of all paths attending. If one of the people being married is non-pagan and they or their family are opposed to a pagan Ritual then not only is it inappropriate, it is inadvisable.
Yes, we use our lips in worship. Also, some of us have used arthropod shells in our spells/ceremonies. However, I do not think anyone has ever used a bone socket in their spells (at least not in a true pagan spell or ceremony). Lastly, though there is no recorded history of it occurring, I am sure that at one time there was a pagan who used a ornamented roman bathtub in a cleaning ritual or other spell.
Easter goes back over a thousand years. It was celebrated by the pagan tribes as the rebirth of the world and the Catholic Church took the pagan ritual and turned into a religious rite for the church.
Actually the trinity is a Christian term. It refers to the Christian belief the God the Father, Jesus Christ, His Son, and the Holy Spirit are three separate entities, but are also one and the same. So, in short, no, the trinity is not a pagan ritual. It's a term that refers to God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
'pagan tradition' is quite different from 'pagan origins'. It is 'pagan tradition' to 'eat, drink, even to pray'. Jehovah's witnesses don't stop eating, drinking, and praying, just because the pagans follow that tradition.
The Olympic games began in Olympia in 776 BCE. However they were banned as a pagan ritual by emperor Theodosius in 393 CE.
Sage burning is found in Pagan religions, most commonly Wicca in order to cleanse a house of negativity.