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.
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.
Before the change the winter winds came from another direction.
Summers were warmer, winters less harsh and the snow lighter.
When Saturn had been banished into nightand all the world was ruled by Jove supreme,the Silver Age, though not so good as goldbut still surpassing yellow brass, prevailed.Jove first reduced to years the Primal Spring,by him divided into periods four,unequal,—summer, autumn, winter, spring.—then glowed with tawny heat the parched air,or pendent icicles in winter frozeand man stopped crouching in crude caverns, whilehe built his homes of tree rods, bark entwined.Then were the cereals planted in long rows,and bullocks groaned beneath the heavy yoke.
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.
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.
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.