Likewise, the Christmas festival has nothing to do with the winter solstice.
The right one descended upon my winter lodge.
Carthage, Africa, Winter AD38 - Nathaniel
When it happens it is usually in the winter, either one of the old people or someone very young.
And in the winter, midwinter festival when the sun starts coming back.
It happens near the end of harvest when we are celebrating a good harvest, or if it has not been a good harvest we sing songs to the spirits to help us make it through the winter.
On the night that is the longest we have the winter ceremony, and that is when certain legends must be told and passed down.
I had done winter camping; he had too.
That the winter winds came from a different direction and summer was then a bit longer, but not too much different from now.
The main difference was the direction of the winter winds that they had to adjust for.
Life was easier, for the summers were warmer and the winters were not as harsh.
And in the middle of the winter the nights would be very long, but there would still be some light during the day.
Some of the light was like the winter light, but very fantastic.
Normally they are there in the winter and you just see them at night.
D: Do these happen in the winter or the summer?
I was enjoying telling you about the winter nighttime lights.
Jupiter shortened spring’s first duration and made the year consist of four seasons, winter, summer, changeable autumn, and brief spring.
Jupiter ends eternal spring and divides the year into four seasons (winter, summer, autumn, and brief spring).
Speaker: "Christmas and the Jewish Festival of Lights both occur at the winter solstice, celebrating the sun’s rebirth as it moves one degree northward on December 25th.
A story of winter, of sacrifice, of an ancient threat that always comes with the wind.
In Norse myth, a Yule boar was offered to Freyr, god of peace and plenty, during the winter solstice—a ritual marking the darkest time of year and the hope of returning light.
It might be the god of winter knocking at the door.
Winter required preparation, sacrifice, work.
Across Europe and beyond, the winter solstice was both celebration and warning—a moment to feast, but also to fortify.
And maybe these ideas are reflected in the fairy tale we now know—a tale where the lazy are lost, where the clever survive, where winter comes, and those who prepare best live to tell the tale.
Corresponding decline in oaks (Quercus rotundifolia and canariensis) in favor of Gramineae suggests reduced winter precipitation corresponding to cooler sea temperatures in North Atlantic.
There is, too, the so-called Crypteia or secret service, in which our youth wander about the country night and day unattended, and even in winter go unshod and have no beds to lie on.
MEGILLUS: I think that I can get as far as the fourth head, which is the frequent endurance of pain, exhibited among us Spartans in certain hand-to-hand fights; also in stealing with the prospect of getting a good beating; there is, too, the so-called Crypteia, or secret service, in which wonderful endurance is shown,—our people wander over the whole country by day and by night, and even in winter have not a shoe to their foot, and are without beds to lie upon, and have to attend upon themselves.
Further, at all seasons of the year, summer and winter alike, let them be under arms and survey minutely the whole country; thus they will at once keep guard, and at the same time acquire a perfect knowledge of every locality.
And every city which has any sense, should take the field at least for one day in every month, and for more if the magistrates think fit, having no regard to winter cold or summer heat; and they should go out en masse, including their wives and their children, when the magistrates determine to lead forth the whole people, or in separate portions when summoned by them; and they should always provide that there should be games and sacrificial feasts, and they should have tournaments, imitating in as lively a manner as they can real battles.
I may add that all dances ought to be performed with a view to military excellence; and agility and ease should be cultivated for the same object, and also endurance of the want of meats and drinks, and of winter cold and summer heat, and of hard couches; and, above all, care should be taken not to destroy the peculiar qualities of the head and the feet by surrounding them with extraneous coverings, and so hindering their natural growth of hair and soles.
Nebiru moves in a cyclical path that reaches the outer areas of Sirius before returning through the dark galactic winter to reenter the orbit of our Sun.
Further south in Turkey and into Iran, different myths speak of a great winter, prompting survival in underground cities.
This marked the end of summer and honored the dead, with bonfires lit on hilltops and beliefs that spirits sought warmth as winter approached.
In Hawaiʻi, during Hoʻoilo, the winter season from November through April, a seasonal constellation commonly called the Pleiades is high in the night sky.
Their rising signals the seasonal change to winter and the start of the Makahiki season—a time when people harvested their food, gave thanks, and refreshed their spirits with games, hula, mele, and aloha.
During Moments of CrisisIn dire situations—think a fisherman caught in a collapsing ice floe or a family starving through a brutal winter—Agloolik might shift into a human to intervene directly.
Example: The Soyal ceremony (winter solstice) invokes the sun’s return—prayers and offerings (e.g., cornmeal) align with celestial cycles—disruption risks chaos, as in the Third World’s fall (fire ~10,800 BCE, flood ~9,650 BCE).
Yasht 5.25-31 (Yt5.25-31): “To Yima, the good shepherd… Ahura Mazda gave the boon… he made him ruler over the seven climes of the earth… in his time there was no cold nor heat… nor death.” Later, “the evil winter came… Yima made a Vara… with a door and a window, self-shining within,” preserving life against the flood and frost.
This triggers the “evil winter” (Yt5.25-31)—floods from melting snows and ice—destroying the surface world.
Deluge: Yima’s “evil winter”—floods and ice—parallels Atlantis’s sinking (Timaeus 25d), both cataclysms tied to a golden age’s end.
Once Christianity became the accepted religion of the empire, pagan holidays were expropriated.Saturnalia, for example, was the winter festival in honor of the god Saturn, the equivalent of the Sumerian god of the heavens, Anu, and the Egyptian god Amen-Ra (known to the Greeks as Cronos).
A slab embedded in the wall of Enclosure D includes carvings aligned with the winter solstice sunrise.
Alignments between the summer and winter solstice sunrises are also reflected in specific carvings and features.
Ancient Zoroastrian texts, such as the Vendidad, describe an underground refuge built by Yima to survive a devastating winter.
Geographical Context:Unlike Mesopotamia and Egypt, where irrigation relied on rivers, agriculture in Canaan depended on unpredictable winter rains brought by Mediterranean storms.
Onk gave I unto you that you**** might behold the glory of summer, the fragrance of spring, the beauty of autumn and the snow of winter.
P'boa (Panic), the destroyer, winter.
Penak, - summer and winter.
I.: As the wind whisper''' E in the leaves, and utter''' O in the ocean's surge and in the thunder above, and Ih in the winter's shrill whistle, so came the name E-O-Ih, which hath become Jehovih, and Eloih, and Elohim and Wenohim.
In the leaves the wind said Ee; in the ocean surge and in the storm's roar, Oh; and in the winter's whistle, Ih; and he called the Unseen, E-O-Ih; Eolin (Poit); Eolih (Zerl); Eloih (Fonece); Jehovih (Ebra, Hebrew); Wenowin (Algonquin); Egoquim (Huit); Ze-jo-is (China).
In periods of thirty-three years, therefore, tables can be constructed expressing very nearly the variations of vortexya for every day in the year, and to prophesy correctly as to the winters and summers, so far as light and darkness, and heat and cold, are concerned.
This flattening and rounding of the vortexian lens of the earth is one cause of the wonderful differences between the heat of one summer compared with another, and of the difference in the coldness of winters, as compared with one another.
Winter tables made by the ancients were based on periods of six hundred and sixty-six years, and were called SATAN’S TABLES, or the TIMES OF THE BEAST.
For example, the ant and the bee, and many animals, prophesy in regard to an approaching winter.
It hath its winters and summers for a season, and then the end come.
They march right on; cycle follow cycle, as summer follow winter.
Had I not seen on the earth how night must follow day, and winter after summer; that I must need pray for endless light in a heaven where Thy sons and daughters are as yet but babes in the time and course of worlds?
Jehovih said: Of such like is My heavenly edifice; I send not winter to please one man, nor summer; nor the rain.
In His second call, it was like spring-time, after heavy winter.
And thus they cast aside all spirit, even Jehovih, reasoning, that if the sun made winter and summer, and grass to grow and die, so it ruled over animals and men.
The Lord then gave the signs of the zodiac (the horses, and cows, and lions, and sheep, and birds) that rule upon the earth, and upon the winds of heaven, and on the heat and cold, and the sun, and moon and stars, and spring and summer, and fall and winter.