Thousands are expected to descend on Langadas near Thessaloniki to participate in the ancient fire-walking ritual of "Anastenaria" ...

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before ...

The common thread? Rituals are how we survive the chaos. This week’s double Torah reading begins Acharei Mot—“after the death.” After the fire. After Aaron’s sons, Nadav and Avihu ...

ready to honour this ancient Celtic ritual marking the beginning of summer: Bealtaine, the May Day festival. Since 2009 the Bealtaine Fire Festival has been reviving this folk tradition ...

Charles Dahan immigrated to the U.S. from Morocco via Switzerland in 1973 — when he began working as a chemical engineer for the DuPont Corporation. Life took him down a variety of paths and he ...

How does a band come back from a disaster? In 2022, Arcade Fire tried with We, an album consciously constructed to sound like their old records. It was a remedy to the toxic reaction provoked by ...

The festival, anchored by the Agni Konda Mahotsava (sacred fire ritual), began on May 5 and is drawing thousands of devotees from across the region.On Tuesday, devotional rituals, including Bandi ...