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Pagan Spirit Gathering (PSG) is a nature spirituality festival organized by Circle Sanctuary. First held in 1980, it has grown into one of the oldest and largest such events in the United States. [1] The gathering is held Sunday to Sunday during the week near the summer solstice, forming a temporary Pagan town each year. [2]
A Wiccan ritual altar. British Traditional Wicca. Gardnerian Wicca (1954) Alexandrian Wicca (1967) Central Valley Wicca (1969) Algard Wicca (1972) Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca (1974) Blue Star Wicca (1975) Eclectic Wicca and Inclusive Wicca; Celtic Wicca; Covenant of the Goddess; Saxon Wicca; Dianic Wicca. McFarland Dianic Wicca; Faery Wicca ...
The largest modern pagan (also known as neo-pagan) religious movement is Wicca, followed by Neodruidism. Both of these religions or spiritual paths were introduced during the 1950s and 1960s from Great Britain. Germanic Neopaganism (also known as Heathenry) and Kemetism appeared in the US in the early 1970s. Hellenic Neopaganism appeared in the ...
Pagan ritual can take place in both a public and private setting. [70] Contemporary pagan ritual is typically geared towards "facilitating altered states of awareness or shifting mind-sets". [ 79 ] To induce such altered states of consciousness, pagans use such elements as drumming, visualization, chanting, singing, dancing, and meditation. [ 79 ]
Church of Eternal Light, Pagan Spiritualist, Bristol, Connecticut [26] Odinshof, Brownsville, Yuba County, California [27] [28] Njörðshof, Asatru Folk Assembly temple, White Springs, Florida [29] RUNVira Temple of Mother Ukraine-Oryana, Spring Glen, New York, in the Catskill Mountains [30] Sekhmet Temple, Cactus Springs, Nevada [31]
Pagan Pride Day, held annually at many locations; Pagan Spirit Gathering, ongoing since 1980; Pan Pagan Festival, ongoing since 1976; Natale di Roma, a festival linked to the foundation of Rome, gained popularity over the last 20 years [2] Spring Mysteries Festival, ongoing since 1986; Sirius Rising, ongoing since 1994; Starwood Festival ...
A marble statue of Jupiter, king of the Roman gods. Paganism (from Latin pāgānus 'rural', 'rustic', later 'civilian') is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, [1] or ethnic religions other than Judaism.
The Pan Pagan Festival (PPF) [1] is one of the United States's first and longest running nature spirituality festivals, [citation needed] organized by the Midwest Pagan Council [2] that spans from Wednesday through Sunday in late July or early August each year. The first Pan Pagan festival was held in 1976 as a way of bringing different groups ...