Thomas H Burgoyne

[Opal]

The difference is the three days of equal light to me. The stationary time before it starts again. None of the others have this. Only the winter solstice.

And pagan myth.

 

[david starling]

The difference is the three days of equal light to me. The stationary time before it starts again. None of the others have this. Only the winter solstice.

And pagan myth.

Makes sense.

 

[petosiris]

The difference is the three days of equal light to me. The stationary time before it starts again. None of the others have this. Only the winter solstice.

And pagan myth.

Three days of equal light? That is impossible.

 

[Opal]

Three days of equal light? That is impossible.

It happens every year.

 

[Opal]

Resurrection

 

[david starling]

Resurrection ��

The Phoenix, rising from the ashes. Transformation.

 

[Opal]

The Phoenix, rising from the ashes. Transformation.

Yes, Happy Solstice New Year!

 

[david starling]

Hey peto, give the poor Phoenix 3 days to get up, figure out what happened, and dust itself off. Plumage is important!

 

[petosiris]

Hey peto, give the poor Phoenix 3 days to get up, figure out what happened, and dust itself off. Plumage is important!

What do you mean? The equinoxes and solstices are a moment, not a day, much less 3 days.

 

[petosiris]

What do you mean? The equinoxes and solstices are a moment, not a day, much less 3 days.

NO SIGN BLENDINGS!!!

 

[david starling]

What do you mean? The equinoxes and solstices are a moment, not a day, much less 3 days.

The blending is more intense at the Solstice. Same psychological effect as three days of almost the same blend.

 

[david starling]

Rainbow colors blend as they shift. They're not walled-off from each other.

 

[petosiris]

Rainbow colors blend as they shift. They're not walled-off from each other.

The naked human eye can perceive only 7 planets and 7 colours.

 

[david starling]

The naked human eye can perceive only 7 planets and 7 colours.

The planet beyond Saturn is visible to the unclothed eye.

 

[petosiris]

The planet beyond Saturn is visible to the unclothed eye.

Yeah like the blended colours of the rainbow - ''technically''.

 

[david starling]

Yeah like the blended colours of the rainbow - ''technically''.

You just have to know where to look.

 

[petosiris]

You just have to know where to look.

Can't see the forest for the trees.

 

[david starling]

Can't see the forest for the trees.

On beyond Saturn!

 

[david starling]

What if Saturn's been protecting us from what's out there, and now we're ready for the cosmos? Time to leave the nest, on the mental plane.

 

[Monk]

The difference is the three days of equal light to me. The stationary time before it starts again. None of the others have this. Only the winter solstice.

And pagan myth.

It is true that ancient people probably used upright logs on the horizon to mark the drift of the Sun, and it appears that the Sun does not move for several days around 21st December before moving on again, as in Maeshowe below:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPNII19Qn4Y


In the centuries before the Julian Calendar when Rome was a democracy Roman Consuls changed office of parts regarding the empire that they ruled on !st January, which is why it was used in the Julian Calendar.


Originally the Winter Solstice would have fallen on 25th December, but when the error was taken out by the Gregorian Calendar, they only rectified up to the first Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, when they first saw there was an error of 3 leap days every 4 hundred years.