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Happy Winter Solstice!

  • 21-12-2009 5:47pm
    #1
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Things can only get brighter from now on. :)

    (I believe 17:47 GMT is the precise time!)


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  • #2
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Hail Posiedon!


  • #3
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea. Bugger all to do with the solstice. Apollo -- who was something of a two-timer, since his absence was denied by both Greek and Roman priesthoods -- is roughly the sun god and more useful in the context of a solstice.

    Dionysus, aka Bacchus in Rome, is probably the god of the season. Or perhaps Saturn, of Saturnalia fame.

    Sheesh, perhaps just one abstract god is easier.


  • #4
    Plowman
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  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    Merry festivus!


  • #6
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Happy secular winter gift festival to all

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • #7
    eoin5
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    Happy day!


  • #8
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Dades wrote: »
    Things can only get brighter from now on. :)

    (I believe 17:47 GMT is the precise time!)

    and to you and yours too.


  • #9
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Did the light shine through Newgrange today? I nearly forgot about today until about 2'O Clock when I suddenly noticed it was night time. Well, not quite but close...

    Why does Websters say it's Dec. 22nd ? - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SOLSTICE


    Happy Solstice anyway. winterlovers, winter trees, winter longing, falling free.


  • #10
    Blackhorse Slim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    Merry Saturnalia !

    Hail Sol Invictus!

    :D


  • #11
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Red Sleeping Beauty wrote: »
    Why does Websters say it's Dec. 22nd ? - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SOLSTICE
    Spitters!


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  • #12
    Scofflaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭Scofflaw


    A very merry midwinter to you all!

    cordially,
    Scofflaw


  • #13
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Dades wrote: »
    Spitters!
    Splittists?
    Scofflaw wrote: »
    A very merry midwinter to you all!
    Splittist!


  • #14
    toiletduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Merry festivus!

    Time for the Feats of Strength.


  • #15
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Dades wrote: »
    Spitters!
    I'm going to leave that typo intact as a reminder of my lack of omnipotence.


  • #16
    Daftendirekt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Daftendirekt


    Eh... Happy Feast of the Son of Isis!


  • #17
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    The night of the winter soltice is the 21st when the Sun sets and the day of the winter solstic is the 22nd.


  • #18
    darjeeling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    Happy Yule!

    And for a reminder that the old pagan ways remain with us during this season, all the way from Sweden, here's the World's Largest Yule Goat (TM), as yet unburned this year.

    Edit:

    Spoke too soon.

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    is now

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    attachment.php?attachmentid=99801&stc=1&d=1261536631

    And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt (Leviticus 10:16)


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