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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
southendmd:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 18, 2016, 10:45:37 am ---It's almost time to celebrate Longerdays! :D
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I put it on the banner!
Welcome to BetterMost!
We celebrate Longerdays,
formerly known as the Winter Solstice
Sason:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 21, 2016, 12:04:17 pm ---Someone posted this (I cleaned up most of the errors):
An old Persian tradition. Persian people celebrate the longest night with fruits like pomegranate and watermelon and all kinds of mixed nuts and dried fruit, reading poems all night long. An ancient tradition to celebrate the longest night and birthday of the sun as days will get longer next morning. It is called Yalda night.
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Ha! I just heard about this on the radio a couple of hours ago!
They interviewed the head of the Iranian association here, and he said exactly that!
brianr:
Of course it is midsummer here in Sydney so sunset at 8.06pm and sunrise at 5.41. Back home in Dunedin sunset is 9.29pm and sunrise at 5.44am.
However
On June 24 next year I will be in Fairbanks, Alaska where I see sunset is at 12.47am and sunrise at 3am with the "rest" of the night just twilight.
So no winter solstice for me until mid 2018.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 21, 2016, 12:34:26 pm ---It's already winter here! I'd like to light a candle at sunset, but I won't be home until after dark. :(
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As soon as I got home, to honor the solstice I lit a soy candle with a spruce scent. My place smells wonderful! :D
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: brian on December 21, 2016, 05:36:54 pm ---Of course it is midsummer here in Sydney so sunset at 8.06pm and sunrise at 5.41. Back home in Dunedin sunset is 9.29pm and sunrise at 5.44am.
However
On June 24 next year I will be in Fairbanks, Alaska where I see sunset is at 12.47am and sunrise at 3am with the "rest" of the night just twilight.
So no winter solstice for me until mid 2018.
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You just answered a longstanding question of mine, whether people in Australia and environs call our summer winter and our winter summer. And, they do!!
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