It is believed Easter egg traditions come from pagan spring festivals, specifically those honouring fertility goddesses like Ēostre (an Anglo-Saxon goddess), whose name might be the origin of the ...

Is Easter a pagan holiday? One viewpoint is that Easter is rooted in the celebration of the fertility of a pagan goddess, Ishtar, who was from Babylonian times. This celebration of ancient fertility ...

Cahn traces the origins of Easter back to “the goddess of springtime, goddess of fertility, goddess of rebirth” and explains how “Easter in the western calendar is determined by the spring equinox,” a ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...

March 18 marks the holiday of Goddess of Fertility Day. This day is for those trying to conceive and to provide inspiration along that journey. The legend says that the ancient Greeks would call ...

Prompted by its acceptance as an affiliate member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC), The Rust-en-Vrede Gallery + Clay Museum announced the launch of the inaugural SA Clay Awards in ...

“Farmers have always looked at the individual components of soil health, such as fertility ... texture—the percentage of sand, silt and clay particles—make some soils more ‘athletic ...