#pagan lore

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Pagan Lore, March 31 On this date in ancient Rome, the annual Feast of Luna was celebrated at moonrise in honor of the beautiful and powerful Goddess of the Moon and lunar magick. On this date in the year 1848, the famous Fox Sisters supposedly made communication with the spirit world at Hydesville Cottage in upstate New York. Their famous seances gave birth to the popular spiritualist movement, which was all the rage in the United States and England from the mid-1880's to the early twentieth century.                    

Pagan Lore, March 30 The annual Iranian New Year celebration begins on this date and continues for thirteen days. Bonfires are lit and sacred rituals involving eggs and mirrors are performed. A Pagan religious festival was held each year on this day in ancient Mesopotamia to celebrate the sacred union of the God and Goddess, and to give thanks for the creation of the human race.

The annual Festival of Ishtar is celebrated by many Pagans on this day in honor of the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love, fertility, and battle. As a Triple Goddess, Ishtar represents birth, death, and rebirth. On this day, an annual masquerade ritual is held by the Bobo people of Africa to restore the balance of Nature and to ward off evil spirits. Special prayers and offerings are made to the gods of rain and the gods of the harvest.

Pagan Lore, March 28 In Taiwan, the birthdate of the Goddess Kwan Yin is celebrated annually on this date. The Eka Dasa Rudra (an eleven-week-long Balinese festival consisting of thirty ceremonies) is held on this date approximately once every one hundred years to restore the balance between the forces of good and evil. The festival, which is ancient in origin, reaches a climax when thousands of pilgrims gather at the volcano temple to observe animal sacrifices made to appease the god Rudra

Pagan Lore, March 27 Gauri, the Goddess of marriage and abundance, is honored on this date in India with an annual women's festival and special rituals. In ancient Rome, the fertility and wine-god Liber Pater was honored annually on this date. His festival, which was called the Liberalia, was a time of feasting and drinking, and a day when young males entered into their manhood.

Pagan Lore, March 26 Solitude Day. This is a time for Wiccans and Neo-Pagans to spend the day (or at least part of it) by themselves, meditate in solitude, and reconnect with their "inner-selves." Take a quiet walk in the woods or stroll down a deserted beach and listen to the music of the sea. Explore an old barn or write a Goddess-inspired poem.