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Our god is the pre-Christian and pre-Muslim god, Tura." While the men are carving up the bull, the women make a dozen bonfires to cook a sacrificial porridge called "uchuk pata".
We’re in a scary place. Lecturers say students can’t finish whole novels anymore. Gen Z parents aren’t reading to their ...
Jāņi isn’t the only surprise of my month-long visit to Latvia. The country’s coast is a revelation too: 500km of ...
The April 1986 disaster at Chernobyl’s nuclear powerstation is remembered as one of the darkest moments of Ukrainian history, ...
Have you ever wished for rain so badly you’d dance for it? Across the world, people have turned to inventive, touching, and sometimes downright wild rituals to beckon the rain from the stubborn skies.
Imagine walking into Petra, Jordan without the hustle and bustle of tourists clamoring over each other for photos and mule ...
The oldest known synagogue outside Israel was located on the Greek island of Delos—known as the island of the god Apollo in the Cyclades—and attests to the presence of a Jewish community. Roman-Jewish ...
The intersection of Saint Patrick and paganism in Ireland Who was the Irish god Crom Cruach, what was the Killycluggin stone, and what did St. Patrick have to do with it all?
An ancient pagan worship place, allegedly sealed by ancestors of Jesus Christ has been discovered in the heart of Jerusalem after remaining preserved for nearly 3,000 years, according to a report ...
At the heart of Pernik’s pre-Christian festival are ‘ kukeri ’, elaborately costumed dancers dressed in menacing hand-carved, animalistic masks, fur suits and belts tied with bells.