It’s a chance for locals to dispatch their ceremonial indoor pine trees and for the community, and curious outsiders, to gather in a bonfire ritual similar to one of many winter solstice ...

Many of the more than 1,000 people in attendance at Friday’s burn admitted they’re ready to turn the page, at least for now, on the holiday season. “We just wanna watch it burn,” said ...

FC Bergman’s ‘Works and Days’ carries the audience through a highly emotive tour of humankind’s relationship with the earth ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

Venture into Somerset’s cider country to mark the turning of apple season at a traditional wassailing ceremony.

An ancient pagan worship place ... Hezekiah sought to centralise worship at the temple in Jerusalem, abolishing the ritual sites scattered across the kingdom. The Bible describes how, during ...

Planning to celebrate the festive Dinagyang in Iloilo or the colorful Sinulog in Cebu? When you book the studio executive ...

With crowded celebrations of Ireland’s patron saint no longer appealing to her, Nicola Brady discovers why St Brigid’s ...

“According to the Bible, Hezekiah sought to centralize worship at the temple in Jerusalem, abolishing the ritual sites scattered ... Hezekiah’s suppression of pagan places of worship, or ...