pagan traditions
Pre-Christian ritual practices
Pagan traditions are religious or spiritual practices associated with pre-Christian, polytheistic, or nature-based belief systems.
The phrase often refers to ancient customs—seasonal festivals, nature worship, folk rituals—that predate or exist outside major organized religions.
Many contemporary holidays incorporate pagan traditions: Christmas trees and Easter eggs have pagan traditions behind them.
The term can be neutral or dismissive depending on context.
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- polytheismBelief in multiple deities
- nature spiritsSupernatural beings in landscapes
altar · ancestor veneration · sacrifice · trickster figure · pantheon · Beltane · Samhain · moon goddess · full moon · animism · sacred grove · druidry · folk magic · wheel of the year · winter solstice · standing stones · traditional songs · traditional dance
- Baltic cultureLithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, folk costumes, national costumes
- Uralic Traditionsreindeer herding, forest spirits, ancestor spirits, oral poetry, fire rituals
- Midsummermidsummer, summer solstice, midsommar, solstice, longest day
- EstoniaTallinn, kroon, krone, Singing Revolution, TV Tower
- Great MoraviaMoravia, Cyril, Old Church Slavonic, Glagolitic script, Devin
- LithuaniaVilnius, statehood, dukes, interwar period, partisans
pagan traditionsChristian traditions
Religious practices of believers
church ceremonies · Christianity · Christian rituals · Catholic traditions · church rites
pagan traditionsscientific worldview
Understanding based on empirical evidence
rationalism · secular humanism · atheism · materialism · modernity