What are some practices,holidays, and beliefs of Pagans?

Answer 1

Holidays include:
Samhain (prononced sow-wen) Celebrated on Oct. 31 as a celebration of those who have gone before us and have left this realm. Also a great time for divinations of any kind as the veil between this world and the next is thinnest at this time.

Yule: Celbrated around Dec. 21 or 22 depending on when the solstice is that year as a celebration of the return of sunlight as the days are now beginning to get longer.

Imbolc or Candlemas: Celebrated on Feb. 2 as the promise of spring is near and the goats produce full milk.

Ostara: Celebrated on March 20 or 21 or 22 depending on the year. Celebrated as the spring equinox. Holiday of fertility and new life as the spring brings things to rebirth.

Beltane or May Day: Celebrated on May 1 as the most fertile time of year. Sexuality, Love, and Fertility are the central themes of this holiday.

Litha or Midsummer: Celebrated on June 21 or 22 depending on the year. Celebrates the summer solstice. The earth is the strongest during this time and crops are ripe.

Lammas or Lughnasadh: Celebrated on Aug.1 as a bread holiday celebrating the first harvests of grain.

Mabon: Celebrated on Sep. 22 as the fall equinox and marks the second harvest. Emphasis on Apples, berries, wine and nuts. It is a time for giving thanks.

These are the 8 Sabbats that pagans celebrate. We als celebrate each month's full moon. These celebrations are known as esbats.

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Answer 2

Most Christian holidays, practices and beliefs came from the pagan era. They just renamed them and alterted some of the beliefs.

May Day - was the official start of the planting season.

Valentines Day - St Valentine was actually a pagan saint to begin with.

Easter, Christmas etc all were once pagan holidays, and usually had something to do with farming, war etc

Answer 3

Christmas as it's celebrated today is a bastardization of the pagan Yule holiday.

Easter is a variant of a pagan spring celebration. The pagans celebrated the "rebirth" of the mother earth after her "death" in winter time. Rabbits, were just one symbol of fertility during this celebration.

Samhain (Hallowe'en) is a celebration of the dead.

Pagan practices vary from group to group. The most basic beliefs are that there are more than one god (why the christians claim their 3 are 1) and: "Do as you will, bring harm to noone". The last was adopted into the bible as "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

Answer 4

Excellent articles on this subject at www.witchvox.com.

Most pagans use a Celtic calender, a few of us use others. The holidays revolve around the seasonal-planting cycle. There are 8 holidays on the Celtic calender. We believe that all of life is alive. Our beliefs are similar to the Native American beliefs. Or any tribal belief system. We don't believe in absolute evil. The Devil is a Christian concept, not a pagan one.

Answer 5

Christmas (known as Yule), Easter (known as Ostara), Halloween (known as Samhain). Of course there are tons other, but it all depends on which sect of Paganism you're referring to.

Assuming you're talking about Wicca, Wiccans practice the act of love and tolerance for everyone. Wicca is an Earth-based religion that believes in the duality of Deity. Some Wiccans believe Deity to be both male and female, or to be separate; a Goddess and God.

The link below gives you some information on Wicca, as well.

Answer 6

I am a Celtic Reconstructionist. I celebrate four agricultural holidays a year. Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtainne, and Lughnasadh. Although I recognize the solstices and equinoxes, I do not celebrate them as religious holidays.

I believe in and worship deities that were once worshiped in Celtic-speaking areas during the Iron Age. I believe in reincarnation, and give daily offerings of incense, food and drink at my family altar. I believe and give honor to my ancestors and local land and water spirits. I believe in the symbology of a world tree representing the lower (sea), middle (land), and upper (sky) realms. I am a polytheist and some of my deities are Taranis, Lugh and Epona. Two important tenets of my religion are honor and hospitality (there are more). I've tried not to write a novel here but it's hard to condense it into a few paragraphs. If you are interested in more information:
http://paganachd.com/faq/index.html

Answer 7

They have many feasts and holidays to make joyful noise at.

The sites below has some information of all the holidays they celebrate.

Answer 8

Christmas is a big one. If we took everything pagan out of Christmas, only fundamentalists would ever want to celebrate it.

Answer 9

XMAS, EASTER, HALLOWEEN, VILENTINES,

Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jer 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jer 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.

Eze 8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
Eze 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

1ti 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
1ti 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

2ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Tit 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

2pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

De 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. the LORD thy God

Answer 10

Christmas, birthdays, Easter, Halloween. They worship elements like the sun, and animals.