If the winter solstice is the longest night of the year, why does it mark the beginning of winter, rather than the very middle of it?
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Well, keep in mind that how we celebrate things is radically different when “pagans” celebrated.
Winter Solstice was about the *birth of the sun* with days growing longer & it *wasn’t* the celebration of the *start* of winter. It’s been hijacked to correspond with Jesus birth. This all has to do with the Church appropriating customs because prior to the Middle Ages, it was thought that Jesus was born in the Spring (May 20 according to some theologians and based on current Gregorian calendar which is not the same calendar used several centuries ago) NOT winter.
Every Western holiday we have in modern times is based on a “pagan” holiday that’s been converted to conform with Church teachings. Even Halloween, Day of the Dead, & All Soul’s Day are based on “pagan” celebrations & beliefs. Halloween though has become corrupted into a costume party & has essentially lost all meaning thanks to commercialism.
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