10 satanic celebrations held around the world (With Pictures)

3. Burning Man – Black Rock, Nevada 

Every year a city appears and then disappears after a week. Participants in the city are expected to understand and adhere to 10 principals that include radical inclusion and radical self-expression.

Burning man started in San Francisco on a beach with a few friends in 1986. At its founding, a group of friends met and burned a nine-foot wooden man, and a small wooden dog. According to artist Lee Harvey, he organized this burning as an act of “radical self-expression.” Each year, the burning of the man continued and the crowds swelled, so much so that the event was moved to Black Rock desert in Nevada. This year, Burning Man tickets sold for around $400 and the event sold out in 44 minutes. Last year’s event drew 65,992 people.

To many who have never been to Burning Man, it’s difficult to explain what Burning Man is. It’s essentially a large arts festival in the middle of nowhere, and once you are there nothing is for sale except water and ice. Sharing, or ‘gifting’ is highly encouraged. The event is as frequented by hipsters as it is entrepreneurs who are attracted to this festival as a way to escape the outside world.

Now, to may conservative Christians they find this event is Pagan in origin, even Satanic, and many in religious circles are horrified that the event ends with the burning of the man, and even a temporary temple. At the end of Burning Man everything is removed as event organizers believe in not leaving any trace on the land.