Re: Happy Newton's Day! ( winter soltise)

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:02:10 GMT, "Travis M."
<Travis.Shoreline@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Jangchub" <sakadawa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:55:27 -0800, Persephone wrote:
>>
>> > On 28 Dec 2005 15:29:30 -0800, "Chuckie"
>> > <allianceproduce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > > The winter soltise is a druid holiday
>> > > Chuckie in the frozen north, zone 5
>> >
>> > Wrongie, Chuckie. The Winter Solstice
>> > is an astronomical phenomenon:
>> > In layman's terms, the day is at its shortest.
>> >
>> > What different cultures, including the Druids,
>> > do at the Solstice is another matter.
>> >
>> > Persephone
>> >
>>
>> And to add further to the Winter Solstice (which was my 50th
>> birthday)

Mazal tov!

[...fascinating astronomical discourse...]

> The ancients charted the travel of the star Sirius as it moved
>> westward. At the mid-point of its travels, it marks the rebirth
>> of
>> the night Sun at midnight of December 25th, the beginning of
>> many
>> gay festivities and celebration, then just like today.
>
>What gay festivals?
>
Believe it or not, there was a time when "gay" meant happy, cheerful.
>
>> To our ancestors this meant the Sun had won out over Old Man
>> Winter, that
>> all life would be saved by its warm, life-giving rays. The Sun
>> had
>> experienced death for three days, but on December 25th it was
>> resurrected, reborn on Natalis Solis Invicti, "The Birth of the
>> Unconquered Sun." "Christ's Mass or Christmas", really means
>> "Sun's
>> Mass." The title Christ may be traced to the Chaldean "Chris" a
>> name of the Sun. Its Hebrew equivalent, "Heres" occurs several
>> times in the Old Testament where it is always translated as
>> "Sun".

Can you give the Hebrew letters for "Heres" and some idea where in the
Hebrew Bible it appears?

I thought "Sun" was "Shamash".
>>
>> Solar theology has inspired some religions to bolster their own
>> deities by borrowing from the power of the Sun, and much
>> confusion
>> exists because of this practice.

Not in the minds of the retailers, who stand to make 1/3 of their
annual nut by appropriating the date as a Christian holy day.
Which many Christians, alas, no longer celebrate as a religious
event but rather a shopping event.

However, anyone can look for
>> themselves: on a December midnight clear, the truth is
>> revealed. To
>> know that the Sun will bring us warmed, green crops, and
>> renewed
>> life is certainly grounds for rejoicing.
>>
>> Blessings to all

There is an astronomical term which I can't remember -- something like
"alemna"??? It explains why the days get longer (after the Winter
Solstice) FASTER than they got shorter before the Solstice. I
looked this up once, because I had always THOUGHT this was
the case, and it was confirmed.

Anybody?



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