Thomas H Burgoyne

Opal

Opal

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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.
 
Monk

Monk

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Opal said:
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.
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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.
 
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