What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever found left in a used car? Old phone charging cables? Fuzzy dice? How about a pagan symbol burned into the headliner. It sounds like an SNL skit, but car ...

White supremacists have long had a tendency to steal, then subvert, the original meaning of symbols and runes used by peaceful, pagan religions worldwide.

When it comes to a lot of Christian holidays, it doesn’t take much digging to uncover pretty obvious remnants of the pagan festivals they replaced still lingering in the ways we celebrate today.

An early pagan tradition combined the symbolism of the wreath with four candles that were placed in the four compass directions to represent the elements — air, earth, water and fire. There ...

Pagan Easter traditions actually date back before Christianity existed. And some of these traditions are the reason why eggs and bunnies are such a big part of this holiday.

The unexpected origins of popular Christmas traditions Though December 25 is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the date itself and several of the customs we've come to ...

In their paper, "Pagan symbols associated with the female anatomy in the Medici Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti," a group of Brazilian researchers led by Deivis De Campos aim to show that there ...

Christians from the 1st Century on have transformed pagan symbols so that they embody Christian teaching. Christians “baptized” the egg into a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus.