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People grab cookies before watching skits during the West Woods Winter Solstice Celebration ... to participate in remembering the German goddess Hertha, by taking a piece of evergreen, carrying ...

EOSTRE: The naming of the celebration seems to go back to a pre-Christian goddess in England who was celebrated at beginning of spring. STOCK PHOTO ...

Another theory says that April Fools’ Day could have gotten its start in ancient Rome, with Hilaria, which was a day of joy marking the end of an annual festival that honored the goddess Cybele ...

“While Christmas is fixed to a solar calendar (and near the winter solstice), Easter is based on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar,” the almanac says. “In the Christian ...

Newgrange was built so that during the winter solstice (dawn on the shortest day ... or “people of the goddess Danu,” dwelled there. Newgrange was built by the god Dagda and named for the ...

One common theory is that the German word was derived from the name Eostre (also sometimes spelled Ostara), who was an Anglo-Saxon goddess ... the end of winter around the spring solstice by ...