Pagan Fest News

 
Interview with Arkona
Metal Underground
The folk metallers have been touring heavily in support of their sixth full-length album "Slovo", and will soon to be tearing up festivals across Europe and America like Paganfest, Extremefest, and Brutal Assault. I talked to Arkona about "Slovo", ...


 
Cupid's special day
SmallTownPapers News Service
Romans celebrated a pagan festival of fertility on February 15, it was later declared a Christian feast day in 496 AD and the date was changed to February 14. The feast was to honor St. Valentine, but it is not known which of the three St. Valentine's ...

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ABC News (blog)
Today in Pictures: Super Bowl, Pagan Fire Festival, Heavy Snow in Europe
ABC News (blog)
Imbolc is a pagan festival that marks the half-way point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. (Bethany Clarke/Getty Images) Members of the international organization “Animanaturalis”, take part in a protest against bullfighting, Feb.


 
Daily Bhaskar
Are you a love-Scrooge or love-sick?
Fairview Post
Another, slightly gruesome origin of the holiday is the Roman-Pagan festival called Lupercalia. For the Romans, February symbolized the official beginning of Spring, which was a time for purification. Lupercalia was a festival that occurred in the Ides ...
Valentine's Day: The legend of Saint ValentineDaily Bhaskar

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Green Man Festival 2012
Spacelab
Enter the Green Man Festival. On the food side, check out the new-Pagan organicness, and I quoteth from their web site: "a whole new range of vegetarian and meat stalls, from Paella and Organic hamburgers, through to fresh vegetables, ...


 
Daily Mail
That's one way to keep warm! Pagan sun worshippers stage fire festival in ...
Daily Mail
But these were no sun bathers, hoping to catch a few rays - this was the annual pagan ceremony of Imbolc. The annual Imbolc festival celebrates the awakening of the land and growing power of the sun. The pagan ceremony marks and half way point between ...

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Hot Chocolate
Syracuse New Times
Based on pagan traditions, Valentine's Day was originally known as Lupercalia, a fertility festival devoted to Fanus, the Roman god of agriculture, and the twin founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. Including festivities like slapping women with goat ...

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