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Neo-Paganism – Holy days

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  1. Neo-Paganism: Is Dialogue Possible?
  2. Neo-Paganism Dialogue: What is Neo-Paganism?
  3. Neo-Paganism - The Pagan Deities
  4. Neo-Paganism - Neopaganism as nonauthoritarian, anarchic
  5. Neo-Paganism - Paganism as nature religion
  6. Neo-Paganism - The body, sexuality and nakedness
  7. Neo-Paganism - History of Neo-Paganism
  8. Neo-Paganism - Ritual in Neo-Paganism
  9. Neo-Paganism - The practice of magic
  10. Neo-Paganism - Sexuality in ritual
  11. Neo-Paganism - Holy days
  12. Neo-Paganism - Barriers and bridges to Christian faith
  13. Neo-Paganism: Barriers and bridges to dialogue
  14. Neo-Paganism - Barriers and bridges - theological
  15. Neo-Paganism - Barriers and bridges - historial
  16. Neo-Paganism - Conclusion
  17. Neo-Paganism - Endnotes
  18. Neo-Paganism - References
  19. Neo-Paganism - About this article

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Every day is holy, but pagans celebrate a number of festivals during the year. As paganism is a nature religion, the festivals fall on astronomical dates or at the change of seasons or are agriculturally derived. Wiccans call the festival calendar 'the wheel of the year'. Magick is particularly powerful on these `power days'.

Each festival is a celebratory event with different rites/activities. There are eight Sabbats (festivals), four major and four minor. Each community celebrates those Sabbats that are important to it.

Ritual belongs to each festival. The basic steps of Wiccan ritual can be performed individually, in a small group or in covens. In the thirteen esbats18 per year the general ritual is followed with the addition of communion and meditation.

Sabbat ritual usually involves enactment of myth or 'theatre', and Sabbats are often celebrated all day with picnics, seminars and drumming (Ravenwolf: 89).

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This post was last updated: Jul. 31, 2006