The most prominent pagan monument in Europe is the still impressive ruins of the temple of the Parthenon. Its name means "the apar...

Bardsey is a small island measuring about one mile long and a little over half a mile wide. It lies nearly two miles off the Western...

One of the most important sites of pagan remains in Europe and the world is the temple complex on the Aegean island of Samothrace, loca...

Marten Eskil Winge was a 19th-century Swedish painter whose subjects included the gods and legends of the Nordic people. This painting ...

On the South side of the British monarch's royal residence at Windsor Castle, stretching over an area of 5,000 acres, is Windsor G...

The past is another country, and one with extremely tight border controls. But occasionally a letter or postcard manages to slip out in...

Following on from the Renaissance, the pagan myths of Greece and Rome became common themes in Western painting. Interestingly, the rev...

One of the great mysteries of Christianity is why there are so many saints. In the Catholic church there are said to be over 10,000, wi...

Mannan is an ancient Celtic or pre-Celtic sea god. He is known by the names Manannan mac Lir in Ireland and Manawydan fab Llyr in Wale...

Adranus was a fire god of the Sicels, the original inhabitants of Sicily at the time when the island was colonized by the Greeks and Ca...