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Post-168: Yuletide 2013

12/22/2013

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Winter has begun, if you follow that clumsy system for determining seasons by the solstices and equinoxes,
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Winter Solstice 2010
The solstice was at 12:11 PM EST on December 21st this year. The Sun was "moving south" at 12:10, and "moving north" at 12:12. It briefly "stood still" sometime in the minute of  12:11. That's what a solstice is.

Ancient people figured-out the mechanics of this back in the Stone Age and attached special religious meaning to it, to that mystical moment of the reversal, the beginning of the "days getting longer" (as we say). The ancient Northern Europeans developed this into a major holiday. They held elaborate celebrations, which they called Yule or Yuletide, and their descendants continue to celebrate "the holidays" at the same time.

I wrote about the summer solstice in post-92.

2013's is the first Yuletide during which this weblog has existed, but hopefully not the last!

Thanks for reading.



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