Winter solstice

One of these such traditions is dressing up in costumes. Several hundred years ago, the Winter months were uncertain and frightening times, when food supplies got very low and many people were scared of the dark and of the dangers that came with it. On Samhain when the veil is the thinnest and spirits are said to roam free, people were afraid to leave their homes because they believed they might encounter an evil spirit. So they wouldn't be recognized by the ghosts they'd wear masks when they left their homes after dark, believing that these ghosts would think they were fellow spirits. The communities would also have large bonfires, believing that evil spirits would be afraid of the fires and not bother them. Another tradition started by the Celts is the jack o lantern. It was believed that not only spirits of their beloved ones that…

servant, Gerald Gardner. Wiccan is a religion that idolizes the Earth, and Mother Nature. As you can probably tell from the sentence before, Wiccans are a nature religion. They act in a way that does the least amount of damage to the environment because they want the environment to be, in a way, better. Topics I chose two topics to talk about, Stonehenge and the solstices. I picked those two because I always liked learning about…

I am of course old enough to remember when festivals still retain a whiff of their alternative roots. How far have we travelled from those calm, peaceful tranquil and lens flared days. The meaning of carnival has changed dramatically over the period of time. Carnival has always been and would continue to be the show for the elite in society. In many parts of the world where Catholic Europeans set up colonies and entered into the slave trade carnival took root. Carnival, an annual…

Hazel waited in the elongated shadows, hundreds of thousands of others pressed into the streets around her, all looking expectantly up into the sky for the signal of sundown. With the tall buildings blocking the horizon, they couldn’t be sure when the the suns finally dipped completely out of sight. From lookout point, the farthest edge of Heroes’ City, the watch saw the last rays of sunlight flicker, and then disappear. It was officially sunset; the Winter solstice Festival of Heroes had…

jumped over the fire and did not get your clothes on fire you were ohave a good luck the year to come. When the fire is out and the ashes have cooled make a protective amulet.This is a good time to give offerings to your allies and to faeries or energy beings who may help you, or who share your environment. dancing, feasting, drinking and bonfires; This promotes goodwill, and increases the harmony of your home. As an offering, food is usually appreciated. Traditionally, milk and bread would be…

Within the twenty-four hour rang we have in a day the sun splits it into two halves; Night and day. However the path of they sun is always changing and is never the same. Just like any other star it rises in the east and sets in the west. As time goes by you begin noticing the sun changes its exact paths. The sun’s path through the sky is farther north in June and farther south in December (the sun and the seasons, 2010). Around the end of March and September the sun’s path goes along the…

neatly aligned but nobody knows for sure why these towers were constructed this way (Emerging Technology From the arXiv). All information was destroyed and lost when the pre-Incans fought and demolished the once great site of Chankillo. All that remains are the ruins which stand as puzzle pieces for scientists to analyze and resolve to unearth their meaning. Amelia Sparavigna at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy has a theory from a program she developed that calculates the position of the sun…

2008 Stonehenge Decoded (film). National Geographic Television. Michael Parker-Pearson’s interpretation of Stonehenge is that it is a home for the ancestors. He believes that Stonehenge was built by a chiefdom comprised of thousands of individuals. Although these people are farmers, it is suggested that they brought supplies with them during times of gathering. The chiefdom would travel to Stonehenge to honour their ancestors on the summer solstice to see the sun rise. This was a time when they…

centuries, through secrets passed down from generation to generation. They come in the night , never the same way, never the same way, they come for the men and the boys, for the apprentices and the masters, and the priests and the elders. They are an ever present threat, always watching yet never there, the villages and camps are always moved, the scouts captured or killed, and the ever present stench of fear, the people had given up hope that this would ever cease. The fear that one night…

According to Euclid’s definition of a geometric point, this claim is false because the planet earth has substance (however insignificant in relation to the heavens), therefore earth cannot be a point in the geometric sense. 4. Ecliptic The ecliptic is the path the sun appears to take through the heavens as a result of earth’s orbit. As we spin on our path around the sun, the position the sun occupies against the backdrop of the celestial sphere rotates. In addition to the ecliptic’s…