pagan customs
Pre-Christian ritual practices
Pagan customs are rituals, practices, or traditions associated with pre-Christian religions or nature-based spirituality.
The phrase often appears in discussions of how Christian holidays absorbed earlier practices: Easter eggs and Christmas trees originated as pagan customs.
The term can carry dismissive overtones when used by religious conservatives to criticize secular or non-Christian observances.
- polytheismBelief in multiple deities
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- pentagramFive-pointed mystical star
- solsticeDay of maximum tilt
- winter solsticeShortest day, longest night
charms · ancestor veneration · spirit offerings · handfasting · sacred fire · sacrifice · sacred groves · omens · equinox · harvest festival · harvest moon · animism · earth goddess · runes · world tree · divination · lunar calendar · Beltane
- Germanic AntiquityGermanic tribes, Franks, Saxons, tribal lands, tribal chiefs
- EstoniaTallinn, kroon, krone, Singing Revolution, TV Tower
pagan customsChristian traditions
Religious practices of believers
church rites · Catholic rituals · Jewish customs · Islamic traditions · Protestant traditions
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