"Five thousand years of human history--maybe more--have enfolded this season in rich garb--many layers of celebration, folklore and tradition. Here's where you get to unwrap the gift."

"Long before the dawn of any of the modern Judeo-Christian-Islamic faiths, rituals followed a more simplistic path..... The festivals that mark the change of season-winter, spring, summer and fall-have been transposed to our modern world. This site explores their meanings and how the old ways of honoring these times have been assimilated into our rituals of passage today....Celebrations of the solstice and equinox ... are the foundations for our modern way of life and, in a deeper sense, for the rhythms of our existence. Truly, these celebrations, changed as they may be, are as timeless and eternal as the Great Wheel whose spokes they are."

"Revels is a non-profit performing arts company producing music, theater, recordings and educational materials... From a modest start in Cambridge, Massachusetts, more than thirty years ago, Revels, Inc., has grown into a national, year-round organization which provides unique opportunities for communal celebration....The Christmas Revels, the company's best known production, is a celebration of the winter solstice whose theme in any given year might range from Medieval to Victorian to Russian and American.

Different Revels productions are performed annually in twelve cities across the country: Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York City; Washington, D.C.; Hanover, New Hampshire; Oakland, California; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Houston, Texas; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Tacoma, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Evanston, Illinois, and Boulder, Colorado. In addition, many smaller Revels-inspired productions are performed in various small towns throughout the nation."