Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol ... pagan roots. Historians say they first appeared in ancient Egyptian and Greek ...

The origins of the buns are shrouded in mystery, but historians believe that they date back to the pagan traditions ... cakes represent symbols of deer and ox horns, while others feature a cross. The ...

We see this belief in numerous ancient sources, including the Roman writer Pliny and the Greek writer Plutarch ... is that it ultimately comes from a pagan symbol of fertility. There are a few reasons ...

From the Greek world through the Renaissance, hares often appear as symbols of sexuality in literature and art ... In 1790, the local parson tried to stop the custom due to its pagan associations, but ...

From the Greek world through the Renaissance, hares often appear as symbols of sexuality in literature ... the local parson tried to stop the custom due to its pagan associations, but he was ...

According to the account of the Roman historian Eusebius, the day before his decisive Battle of the Milvian Bridge against the pagan ... the Chi-Rho symbol, the first two capital Greek letters ...

Many symbols, such as the Ichthys and the Latin cross ... represents Jesus’s devotion to guiding and leading the Christian people to salvation. In Ancient Greek and Roman pagan traditions, the lamb ...

The Christian adaptation of the Christmas tree began in the 8th century when St. Boniface replaced the oak tree—a pagan symbol—with the fir tree ... similar practices existed in Byzantine and ancient ...

Priestess Amy McAdams, who's Pagan belief, gave the invocation using the character Medusa from Greek mythology who ... snakes were ancient symbols of feminine divinity, healing, and transformation." ...

informed by earlier depictions of his Greek counterpart Zeus, when visualizing their God and his son Jesus. These same early Christian artists borrowed naturalist pagan symbols, such as fish ...