By the early part of the second century it appears that the Christians, because they're no longer being viewed as a sect of Judaism, are really being considered by their pagan neighbors as another ...

In the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People," the Venerable Bede wrote that Redwald, King of East Anglia starting around 599 C.E., kept a temple with altars to pre-Christian gods as well as ...

"Norway and the Nordic countries have a pagan heritage to be somewhat proud of. A heritage that few have been aware of," says Males. We are not talking about Snorri Sturluson. Even though he is the ...

Drowning of  Marzanna  (Morana) in the Opole region in Poland. Photo: Mariusz Przygoda-FORUM-0436350188 Morana and Gaik: The ...

Paganism continues on even after the conversion to Christianity. [In the Roman Empire] you have an enormous set of religious options. It would be like going to a supermarket and being able to sort ...

Pagans in northern Europe's Baltic region imported horses from neighboring Christian countries during the late medieval period to sacrifice in funeral rituals, a study has revealed. The research ...

After the founding of the Polish state and the simultaneous introduction of Christianity to its territory in 966, the pagan celebrations of Kupala Night fell into disfavour. Nevertheless, efforts to ...

That, in turn, has led to something quite unexpected for a country so proud of its long Christian traditions – the re-emergence of the Native Slavic Faith. Slavic Paganism was officially abandoned in ...