pagan ritual
Pre-Christian worship act
A pagan ritual is a ceremonial practice associated with pre-Christian, polytheistic, or nature-based religions.
The phrase often describes ancient worship—sacrifices, seasonal celebrations, fertility rites—but also applies to modern neo-pagan observances like Wiccan gatherings.
In casual use, pagan ritual can dismissively characterize any unfamiliar or seemingly primitive ceremony: The initiation felt like some pagan ritual.
- wheel of the yearPagan seasonal festival calendar
- libationCeremonial drink offering
- fireCombustion with flames
- BrigidIrish holy woman
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
altar · casting a circle · earth · nature worship · consecration · Beltane · incense · handfasting · Samhain · Celtic mythology · chanting · Hecate · mother goddess · solstice · invocation · circle · ancient · fertility
- Midsummermidsummer, summer solstice, midsommar, solstice, longest day
pagan ritualchurch service
Organized Christian worship gathering
Christian worship · Sunday service · synagogue service · Eucharist · Holy Communion
pagan ritualofficial ceremony