One day in the winter when the lakes had frozen, but before the winter sleep, Bear was walking along the lakeshore.
Descriptions from the texts include intense heat that turned sand into glass, and a lingering nuclear winter effect after the war.
Activities: Begin storing seeds and preparing for winter, reflect on past cycles.
Significance: Further preparations for winter are made, focusing on ensuring all resources are properly stored and managed.
Deity: Horus represents vigilance and protection, ensuring that the community is ready for the winter months.
Activities: Continue preparations for winter, ensure all resources are stored properly.
Deity: Sekhmet, the Goddess of Healing, purifies and strengthens the community, readying them for the challenges of winter.
Activities: Finalize preparations for winter, focus on community healing.
Winter Season
Season: Winter Solstice
Season: Winter
Season: Winter
The calendar can be divided into two halves: spring to summer and autumn to winter.
It can also be divided into four quarters: spring, summer, autumn, and winter."
Mkhulu Nsingiza:"The calendar we are reintroducing is based on what our ancestors used before colonization, specifically the oldest stone calendar in the world, known as 'Umazisikazi.' It is a solar calendar marking the four cardinal points: the spring equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, and winter solstice.
For example, the summer solstice, on December 21, is when the sun is closest to Earth in the southern hemisphere, and the winter solstice, on June 21, marks the sun's return journey towards the southern hemisphere, which we consider the African Christmas."
The autumn equinox in March marks the balance of energies as we prepare for winter."
The summer solstice is the longest day and hottest day of the year, while the winter solstice is the shortest day and coldest day of the year.
"Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime,The fields are florid with unfading prime,From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow.Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow;But from the breezy deep the blessed inhaleThe fragrant murmurs of the western gale."
The story begins with Ahura Mazda foreseeing a catastrophic winter that would devastate the world.
This winter, known as the "evil winter," would last for an extended period and bring severe cold, snow, and ice, threatening all life on earth.
He instructed Yima to build a vara, an underground enclosure, to preserve the best of humanity, animals, and plants during the harsh winter.
The vara was to be a vast, underground shelter, meticulously designed to sustain life during the long winter.
It was large enough to accommodate a diverse selection of living beings, ensuring that the best representatives of each species would survive and repopulate the earth once the winter ended.
They remained there throughout the duration of the evil winter, safe from the external harsh conditions.
After the long winter had passed, Yima and the inhabitants of the vara emerged from their underground refuge.
They stepped into a world that had been cleansed and renewed by the winter.
Vara: The underground enclosure constructed by Yima to preserve life during the severe winter.
Ahura Mazda's Warning: Instructs Yima to prepare for the "evil winters" that will devastate the world.
Thus, under the sway of Yima, three hundred winters passed away, and the earth was replenished with flocks and herds, with men and dogs and birds and with red blazing fires, and there was room no more for flocks, herds, and men.
Thus, under the sway of Yima, six hundred winters passed away, and the earth was replenished with flocks and herds, with men and dogs and birds and with red blazing fires, and there was room no more for flocks, herds, and men.
Thus, under the sway of Yima, nine hundred winters passed away, and the earth was replenished with flocks and herds, with men and dogs and birds and with red blazing fires, and there was room no more for flocks, herds, and men.
Upon the material world the evil winters are about to fall, that shall bring the fierce, deadly frost; upon the material world the evil winters are about to fall, that shall make snow-flakes fall thick, even an aredvi deep on the highest tops of mountains.
'Before that winter, the country would bear plenty of grass for cattle, before the waters had flooded it.
After this there was peace for a time for the colonists, and they cultivated their valleys, which were rather cold in winter, and blazingly hot in summer.
The same primitive apparatus was employed to find the date of the summer and winter solstices, since in connection with these periods there were special religious services.
The stories our people talk about in the oral history, the Coyote stories, and the winter stories have many references to this particular canyon.
There is a lot of history associated with this place, as I mentioned, with all the different stories—the winter stories, Coyote stories, and oral history.
Pliny the Elder recounted that cinnamon was transported around the Arabian peninsula on rudderless, oarless rafts using the winter trade winds .
Kislimu — Winter onset.
Older Sumerian name, often linked to winter solstice or New Year themes.
Some texts place it in Kislimu/Tebetu (winter), but most evidence ties the main New Year celebration to spring (Nisannu).
Purpose: To mark the end of the agricultural year and prepare for the coming winter.
Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of the god Saturnus, typically celebrated in mid-to-late December, around the winter solstice.
Its traditions influenced later winter festivals, including some aspects of modern Christmas celebrations.
Asu was taught that Corpor, the Seen, was ruled over by Es, the Unseen. 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). Nor were these all, for there were many imperfections of His name.
Predictions were exceeded, and as a result, elements from excessive hydrogen-fusion fell into deadly radioactive fallout, resulting in a "nuclear winter" that lasted nearly 200 years.
Even if they survived, there was a nuclear winter and fallout that was more lethal than the explosion).
After 200 years of nuclear winter, Earth's temperature has become much colder than before.
artificial nuclear winter - colder than before
From the Hebrew term for "the Lord", used of God; Adonis of the Syrians representing the Winter sun in the cosmic tragedy of Tammuz.
It released enormous amounts of ash and aerosols into the atmosphere, which likely caused a global volcanic winter lasting several years.
65 million years ago - War between two alien races leading to a fusion bomb explosion, nuclear winter, and mass extinction of dinosaurs and other species.
It was this aspect of experimentation with the primordial forces of Earth that caused the sinking of an entire continent, of tidal waves and flooding over most of your world—the dark night of sunless winter for a vast time on the face of the Earth.
[5] And the waters decreased continually until the 10th month: in the 10th month, on the 1st day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.[6] And it came to pass at the end of 40 days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:[7] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro moves around until the waters were dried up from off the earth.[8] Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;[9] But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.[10] And he stayed yet other 7 days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;[11] And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.[12] And he stayed yet other 7 days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.[13] And it came to pass 601 years, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.[14] And in the 2nd month, on the 27th day of the month, was the earth dried.[15] And God spake unto Noah, saying,[16] Go forth of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.[17] Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all (pure?) flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.[18] And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:[19] Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.[20] And Noah builded an altar unto Yahweh Elohim; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.[21] And Yahwey Elohim smelled a sweet savour; and Yahwey Elohim said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.[22] While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
In Hawaiʻi, during Hoʻoilo, the winter season from November through April, a seasonal constellation commonly called the Pleiades is high in the night sky.
Finally, the tradition of the chimney sweep and the cleaning of the hearth during winter solstice celebrations in Germany may also be related to the Amanita muscaria mushroom and its hallucinogenic effects.