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12/20/2006
7:56:21 am EST
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Solstice Celebrations Seek Renewed Light
Author: Joe Rutherford Source: Daily Journal (MS)
Title: SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS SEEK RENEWED LIGHT
Crofton and Camille Sloan's annual winter solstice party lights up Christmas week for many friends who look forward to the good cheer of a roaring bonfire, a hearty meal and always encouraging words by Crofton about the triumph of light over darkness.
The solstice - commonly described as the "shortest day" of the year -¬ happens in the Northern Hemisphere on Dec. 21 or Dec. 22. In the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are reversed, and, in effect, the "summer" solstice falls on those same dates.
It is a clearly measured, universally known, precisely calculated astronomical phenomena that has been observed with fascination and anticipated for thousands of years. In antiquity, people from Babylon to near the Arctic circle marked it with ceremony, renewed optimism and in the context of various kinds of religious faith.
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| Mythros? | Dec 21st. at 9:06:33 am EST
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Brandi (Hadfield, England) - Email Me
The more common spelling used, well, nearly everywhere I have seen it and nearly everywhere I searched today to confirm the spelling, is Mithras, not Mythros. Books written about the god tend to say Mithras, and also, I would suggest that the Mythros spelling tends to emphasize it as, well, a myth rather than an incredibly popular religion with followers throughout the Roman world.
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| Let Me Keep The Solstice In My Own Way | Dec 20th. at 1:38:32 pm EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Two points. Christmas didn't merely follow the Pagan holidays, they were taken over- literally hijacked. And the problem isn't with christians using and adapting holidays- it is that once they do- they then claim themselves as the sole originators of the practices they usurped.
Looks like it's happening again.
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