To: icydanger
The pine tree rituals symbolizes rebirth, renewal This is especially interesting when people realize that the winter solstice is a celebration of the Day when the Sun rises the latest and sets the earliest, marking the end of the Solar Year and the Beginning of the New.
46 posted on
12/23/2003 4:51:26 PM PST by
The_Pickle
("We have no Permanent Allies, We have no Permanent Enemies, Only Permanent Interests")
To: The_Pickle
...the winter solstice is a celebration of the Day when the Sun rises the latest and sets the earliest,...Actually it's just the shortest day. Neither the latest rising nor earliest setting. Equation Of Time
The earliest sunset is about Dec 7 in the US and the latest sunrise about Jan 14. It has some latitude in its variation.
100 posted on
12/24/2003 9:32:39 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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