and religious phenomena of the festival or holiday in its connection with myth and ritual. We focus in particular on the groundbreaking work of the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and his ...

Rome Saturnalia, an ancient Roman festival ... ancient festivals observing the winter solstice merged with newer winter solstice rituals to create the holiday season as we know it today.

The most dangerous of the solstice rituals has to be polo voladore in ... It wasn’t all fun though – at the end of Saturnalia, he was killed. This is the name of the holiday celebrated by ...