Old European culture

"Greetings to the hair of your head, spun like silk, and to your head with its curly locks, O George, star brighter than (other) stars!...

Happy Parilia (or Palilia) - This Roman festival, held on 21st April, cleansed shepherds & sheep, honouring the god of shepherds & s...

St Mary, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset. St Michael slaying the dragon Some say that i's not St Michael, but that it is instead St George......

Happy 1st of April. Part of a mosaic pavement with the personification of the month of April as a man carrying a lamb. Early 6th century AD,...

In Gaelic calendar , year was divided into two parts: the light (hot) part, which started on Bealtaine (1st of May) and ended on Samhain (31...