The largest and most lavish tomb ever built in ancient Macedonia may have been designed to fill with sunlight on the winter ...

A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

Sun Festival and the Winter Solstice Festival celebrate the longest and shortest days of the year in the Golden Heart City.

Meteorologists and astronomers call the lengthy bright stretch there “polar day.” It’s the opposite of “polar night,” or the months of darkness that befall polar regions during winter. Between ...

the Scandinavian Winter Solstice festival of the Feast of Juul involved the burning of Juul logs to symbolize the returning of the sun, giving rise to the Christmas tradition of Yule Logs.

The first full moon of January 2025 — the Wolf Moon — is here, according to NASA, and skygazers will get a little extra treat with it. The moon rose in the sky in the evening on Sunday, Jan. 12, NASA ...

Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.

Yule was a festival observed by the Pagans and Germanic people that coincided with the Winter Solstice. The festival would last 12 days and has given birth to some familiar Christmas traditions ...

Now, the winter solstice, Saturday, Dec. 21st, is upon us. It will be both the shortest day and longest night of 2024. The solstice also marks the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule, according to ...

Many modern-day Christmas rituals, like decorating trees and burning yule logs, are derived from Winter Solstice traditions. But I couldn’t walk into a roomful of five-year olds blathering on ...

Winter Solstice, also known as Midwinter and/or the Festival of Yule, is a time for rituals and celebrations. In a sense, this was a turning point in the battle of dark versus light in the world.

The winter solstice holiday marks the shortest day of the year and celebrates the returning sun. At their home in Wichita, Orin Hart is preparing for Circle of the Stag’s annual Yule ritual.