And the winter half a time?
Nevertheless, in winter, when food was scarce, the ground people came to the cities of the I'hins, beseeching for food.
Hear My voice, O you* Gods and Goddesses; for as out of a contrary wind I give a mortal sea-captain a wholesome lesson; or as out of a severe winter I give a corporeal farmer a lesson in providing for his household; even so, on the brink of a wicked world, give I you* a lesson on the management of My kingdoms.
First, the earth plie in a circuit around the sun, which circuit is divided into four arcs called spring, summer, autumn and winter.
And now it came to pass, that they had stored in their cities and on their mounds ample provision of food and raiment for the winter; but the druks followed not the example of the I'hins, for the druks stored up nothing.
And when the angels departed a little way, evil spirits came to the druks, and said unto them: Behold, it is winter, and you* are hungry.
Persephone spends a third of the year with Hades (representing winter) and the rest with Demeter (spring and summer).
Apollo was said to leave the temple during winter, replaced by Dionysus, whose rites included ecstatic celebrations.
This wicked deed he accomplished one stormy winter night, while the wind roared and the hail rattled against the windows.
The recurring theme of a savior born on December 25 and resurrected after three days aligns with celestial phenomena, specifically the Sun's movements during the winter solstice.
When the population became too great after 900 years, Ahura Mazda warned Yima that destruction was coming in the form of winter, frost, and subsequent melting of the snow.
To stave off starvation one hard winter, they went hunting and came across the track of a moose.
Menaboshu could not get the serpent-king in the winter, so he came to the lake in the spring.
One particularly hard winter had earthquakes, volcanoes, and floods which destroyed all the trees.
The people spent the long winter in caves and were almost famished the following spring.
(1993) "Insects in Art and Religion: The American Southwest", American Entomologist 39(4) (Winter 1993), 221-229.
The savage man is a pitiable creature; as Menabosbu says, in the Chippeway legends, he is pursued by a "perpetual hunger;" he is exposed unprotected to the blasts of winter and the heats of summer.
"The good and the holy were the hunters;" they spread themselves north, south, east, and west." Meantime all the snakes were afraid in their huts, and the Snake-priest Nakopowa said to all, 'Let us go.' Eastwardly they go forth at Snakeland (Akhokink), and they went away earnestly grieving." Afterward the fathers of the Delawares, who "were always boating and navigating," find that the Snake-people have taken possession of a fine country; and they collect together the people from north, south, east, and west, and attempt "to pass over the waters of the frozen sea to possess that land." They seem to travel in the dark of an Arctic winter until they come to a gap of open sea.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
He believes that Earth, or Gaia, is at the end of a spiritual winter and is entering a spiritual spring.
Morrigan explores the idea of cosmic cycles, where humanity’s current state is akin to a winter season.
This winter season represents disconnection and solitude, but as with all cycles, it leads to renewal.
He likens this process to flowers blooming after winter, with many individuals today serving as the first "snowdrops," laying the foundation for a larger awakening in the coming decades.
However, as humanity moved into a spiritual winter, this connection waned, and only now is it beginning to return.
Similarly, the celebration of December 25th is likely tied to the winter solstice rather than the actual birth of Jesus.
And in their union winter met with summer's fierce and fervid glow, and unto other souls in line they gave their fire, their pride, their calmness and their grace—all that the sons of kings might claim.
Ye shall see and name in our own tongue, for by our gods I swear that ere the snow falls on Britanji's spur we start us southward; winter is there Spring, and Spring a joyous time of warmth and gayest life in nature.
With reference to all glacial epochs it should be stated that though the inhabitants of northern lands were forced to settle during the winter far south of the ice-belt, there yet were great districts to which in summer they could return, and where for the sake of the hunting they encamped until driven south again by the winter cold.
These were intended to be symbolical of the sun's yearly course, but they were also used for astronomical purposes—being placed so that, to one standing at the high altar, the sun would rise at the winter solstice behind one of these monoliths, at the vernal equinox behind another, and so on throughout the year.
And the altar, in respect of its size and its workmanship, harmonized with its surroundings; and the royal palace likewise was such as befitted the greatness of the kingdom, and equally befitted the splendor of the temples.The springs they made use of, one kind being of cold, another of warm water, were of abundant volume, and each kind was wonderfully well adapted for use because of the natural taste and excellence of its waters; and these they surrounded with buildings and with plantations of trees such as suited the waters; and, moreover, they set reservoirs round about, some under the open sky, and others under cover to supply hot baths in the winter; they put separate baths for the kings and for the private citizens, besides others for women, and others again for horses and all other beasts of burden, fitting out each in an appropriate manner.
And they cropped the land twice a year, making use of the rains from Heaven in the winter, and the waters that issue from the earth in summer, by conducting the streams from the trenches.As regards their manpower, it was ordained that each allotment should furnish one man as leader of all the men in the plain who were fit to bear arms; and the size of the allotment was about ten times ten stades, and the total number of all the allotments was 60,000; and the number of the men in the mountains and in the rest of the country was countless, according to the report, and according to their districts and villages they were all assigned to these allotments under their leaders.
Thås årge sêke bistonde-r thes nachtis anda winter by storne tydum as wind gûlde ånd hêjel to jenst tha andêrna fêtere.
Time is the carrier who must eternally turn the “Jol” (wheel) and carry the sun along his course through the [xxii]firmament from winter to winter, thus forming the year, every turn of the wheel being a day.
This wicked deed he accomplished one stormy winter night, while the wind roared and the hail rattled against the windows.
In the Welvenmaand (winter month) the low lands of Fryasland were buried under the sea.
Robert shared an unusual experience at an airshow in Winter Haven, Florida.
The story of Yima, a man instructed to build an underground city to survive a great winter, parallels the construction of the underground cities in Turkey.
Not then arid, nor very sparsely inhabited, though vastly colder in winter, owing to the nearness of the vast glaciers of the north.
All over this hideous work of destruction, when the sea Miti had fled away into Ixla (Gulf of California), the rains and torrents of eleven thousand winter seasons, and the desiccating, powdering influences of as many torrid summers, have smoothed and chiseled and wrought the ruptured, ragged surfaces into yet more fantastic shapes, and claimed the whole work as its own, denying the hand of Pluto as the major worker.
Origin and Age: The Yule tree tradition dates back to pre-Christian Germanic tribes, particularly the Norse, who celebrated Yule as a winter solstice festival.
The practice of bringing evergreen branches into the home symbolized life enduring through winter.
Chinese Mythology: One of the Four Symbols, it represents the north and the winter season, often depicted with a snake wrapped around it.
When the rivers freeze in the winter and the muskrat can't get into his little burrows, the beaver allows the muskrat to come into the beaver dam and live with them all winter long.