Richly illustrated with 400 photographs, the book "Fêtes païennes les grandes heures du calendrier" presents 200 exceptional and unpublished reports. Popular festivals each have an origin, a meaning, and so do the rituals that accompany them, the significance of which many people are unaware of. What is the origin of the calendar celebrations and of the many feasts of saints? What are the rituals that mark these days of commemoration and their relationship to the Christian and Orthodox Churches? So many questions that the author, Jean-Dominique Lajoux, photographer, filmmaker and ethnographer, tries to answer.
Fêtes païennes: Les grandes heures du calendrier; by Jean-Dominique Lajoux; published November 17, 2016
Publisher Delachaux and Niestlé
