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	Winter Solstice - Newgrange Ireland
		Admission to the chamber at Newgrange for the Winter Solstice sunrise is by lottery.
		Joe and Clare won tickets in the winter solstice lottery for December 22nd, they were very fortunate to experience a glorious sunrise in the chamber at Newgrange.
		Solstice literally means 'Sun Stands Still', for a few days around the time of the winter solstice the sun appears to stand still in the sky in that its elevation at noon does not seem to change.
	www.knowth.com /winter-solstice.htm (550 words)

	Winter solstice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice usually falls on December 21/December 22, which is the southern hemisphere's summer solstice.
		Since the winter solstice, summer solstice, vernal equinox, and autumnal equinox were probably observed for the first time by people in the northern hemisphere, these naming conventions originally corresponded to the northern hemisphere's seasons.
		The passage and chamber of Newgrange, a tomb in Ireland, are illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_solstice (548 words)

	Encyclopedia: Winter solstice
		In astronomy, the winter solstice is the moment when the earth is in a point of its orbit at which the northern hemisphere is most inclined away from the sun.
		Astronomically, it begins with the winter solstice (around December 21 in the Northern hemisphere and June 21 in the Southern hemisphere), and ends with the spring equinox (around March 21 in the Northern hemisphere and September 23 in the Southern hemisphere).
		However, in the United Kingdom and Ireland the winter solstice is traditionally considered as midwinter, the winter season beginning November 1 on All Hallows or Samhain.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Winter-solstice (2222 words)

	Winter Solstice (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To early cultures, the winter solstice represented the death of the old solar year and the birth of the new.
		The winter solstice was also the traditional date to honor the birth of the pagan Divine Child, and Norsemen celebrated the birthday of their lord, Frey, at the winter solstice.
		Solstice was known as Sacaea to the Mesopotamians, as the Festival of Kronos to the ancient Greeks, and as Saturnalia to the Romans.
	www.bright.net /~jimsjems/winter.html (1765 words)

	Solstice a Cause for Celebration Since Ancient Times
		The winter solstice is again upon the Northern Hemisphere, and though the year's shortest day heralds the onset of winter it also promises the gradual return of the sun after a prolonged period of darkness.
		The term solstice means "sun stands still." On the year's two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey across the sky and change little in position during this time.
		In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs in December when the tilting of the earth makes the sun appear to be furthest to the south and furthest away.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/12/1220_021220_solstice.html (699 words)

	Solstice Celebrations from A to Z - December 2001 Echoed Voices (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Winter was a very difficult time for all primitive agrarian societies; the end of the growing season meant that the people had to live mostly on the food they had stored and on what creatures they could kill.
		Currently, the calendar date of the winter solstice is in transition between the 21st and 22nd of December.
		The festival of Mithras' birth was December 25th, the winter solstice, and the rebirth of the sun's light.
	www.echoedvoices.org /Dec2001/DecSolstice.html (2129 words)

	Metal Blade Records - Online
		Winter Solstice, a 5 piece hardcore influenced thrash metal outfit located in Lynchburg, VA, began their journey as a band in the fall of 2000.
		Winter Solstice made their largest debut in the summer of 2004 at the Sonshine festival in Wilmar, MN in front of a vast crowd and received an astonishing response.
		Winter Solstice wants listeners to walk away with the feeling that they just heard a band that is not only unrelenting and punishing but also has a strong message to bring to their fans.
	www.metalblade.com /bands/winter_solstice/index2005.html (541 words)

	Yule Rituals (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The winter solstice takes place on or about December 21 every year, and is the moment when the sun is at its southernmost position.
		For those in the northern hemisphere, this means that on the winter solstice the sun rises the latest and sets the earliest of the entire year.
		The winter solstice demonstrates the enduring cycle of the heavens by an event that has been directly observable, year in and year out, century after century, for millions of years.
	www.tryskelion.com /yule7.htm (1949 words)

	Ancient Origins: Solstice
		When it's winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun is directly overhead at noon only along the Tropic of Capricorn, on which lie such places as Sao Paulo, Brazil, southern Madagascar, and areas north of Brisbane, Australia.
		Winter solstice was overlaid with Christmas, and the observance of Christmas spread throughout the globe.
		Solstices were tremendously important to them, and the winter solstice celebration lasted several days.
	www.candlegrove.com /solstice.html (2024 words)

	The Dark Days of Winter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the weeks before solstice, the two effects act in opposite directions on the time of sunset: the declination effect pulling it earlier and the Equation of Time pushing it later.
		A similar situation occurs at the summer solstice, although the effect is not as extreme.
		Solstice occurs around 21 June, but at latitude 40 degrees north the earliest sunrise occurs around 14 June and the latest sunset around 28 June.
	aa.usno.navy.mil /faq/docs/dark_days.html (691 words)

	Winter Solstice: The True Story of the Shortest Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice occurs in December, when that hemisphere is tilted the farthest away from the sun.
		This year December 21 is the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice, the shortest day—and longest night—of the year.
		The Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice occurs when that hemisphere is tilted the farthest away from the sun.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /kids/2003/12/wintersolstice.html (490 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Winter Solstice Festival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is the time when farmers and fishermen collect supplies and food in preparation for the coming winter.
		They are cooked in a sweet soup or savoury broth with both the ball and the soup/broth served in one bowl.
		Winter solstice (December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/winter_solstice_festival.htm (156 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Winter solstice - Calendar Encyclopedia
		The passage and chamber of Newgrange are illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
		In the Chinese calendar, the winter solstice is called dÅng zhÃ¬ (å¬è³, "winter's extreme") and is traditionally regarded as one of the year's most important JiÃ©qÃ¬s, comparable to Chinese New Year.
		Rather confusingly, the character è³ may also mean "arrival" in other contexts, but it is clear that the Chinese consider "winter's arrival" (ç«å¬ lÃ¬ dÅng, literally "establishment of winter") to be a separate JiÃ©qÃ¬ which falls on or around November 7 instead.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /Winter_solstice.htm (525 words)

	New Science: A Change of Season (9/20/01)
		The shortest day is in the middle of winter, around December 21st or 22nd, north of the equator.
		Winter solstice: The day of the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year.
		It is the beginning of winter, on December 21st or 22nd.
	liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /News/2001/News-AutumnalEquinox.asp (787 words)

	Celebrate the Winter Solstice
		The word solstice literally means "sun standing still." At the moment of the winter solstice, the path of the sun in the sky over the past six months has reached its furthest southern position and now turns northward.
		This definition is based on the position of the sun in the sky between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox.
		The battle reaches a turning point on the Winter Solstice as the advances of Darkness are halted and the tide turns for the forces of Light.
	www.islandnet.com /%7Esee/living/winter/winter00-03.htm (918 words)

	Reclaiming the Winter Solstice
		Augustine admitted that putting Christmas at the winter solstice was a conscious identification of the Son with the sun but defended the symbolism.
		The Druids collected mistletoe at the winter solstice, their ritual Alban Arthuan, as well as at the summer solstice; in winter, the mistletoe has white berries, representing the semen of the God and bringing fertility.
		The winter solstice similarly commemorated the rebirth of Egyptian Osiris, who after a mummification beginning November 3 was buried on the solstice.
	www.widdershins.org /vol4iss6/01.htm (2684 words)

	Winter solstice celebrations of Christianity, Judaism, Neopaganism, etc
		The concept of birth and or death/rebirth became associated with the winter solstice.
		The solstice is the time of the death of the old sun and the birth of the dark-half of the year.
		At the solstices and equinoxes, the sun rises and sets at notches or peaks in the ridge which surrounded the calendar.
	www.religioustolerance.org /winter_solstice.htm (3303 words)

	"Winter Solstice -- Gift Illumination" by Dorothea Hamann
		Christmas is here again, and there is good reason for joy because the sun, now far away in the south, begins to travel north at the winter solstice, bringing the wintry earth a new promise of light and warmth.
		The word "solstice" means "the standing still of the sun." From December 22-24 the sun seems, astronomically, to stand still.
		On January 5/6, about two weeks after the winter solstice, Christians celebrate Twelfth Night or Epiphany, in which the "wise men" bring their gifts to the newborn initiate, the christ child, born from the awakened human soul.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/christ/xt-haman.htm (1146 words)

	The Winter Solstice
		The upper panel shows that on the winter solstice (which occurs around December 21), the northern half of the Earth is tilted away from the Sun.
		During the winter, the Sun is also above the horizon for a shorter time than it is during the summer (the nights are long).
		The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/the_universe/uts/winter.html (357 words)

	Equinox and Solstice: Festivals
		The celebration of equinox and solstice are commonly referred to as pagan holidays.
		Winter Solstice: on or around December 22nd, the first day of winter.
		Although celebrations of the solstice and equinox come to us from a far more simplistic time, they are, nevertheless, the foundations for our modern way of life and, in a deeper sense, for the rhythms of our existence.
	www.equinox-and-solstice.com (633 words)

	Winter Solstice — Infoplease.com
		In astronomy, the solstice is either of the two times a year when the Sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator, the great circle on the celestial sphere that is on the same plane as the earth's equator.
		In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs either December 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn; the summer solstice occurs either June 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Cancer.
		In the Southern Hemisphere, the winter and summer solstices are reversed.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/wintersolstice1.html (337 words)

	Celebrating Winter Solstice - School of the Seasons
		The Winter Solstice is unique among days of the year — the time of the longest night and the shortest day.
		Dionysus was born in winter, crowned with serpents, became a lion in the spring and was sacrificed as a bull (stag or goat) in the summer because these were calendar emblems of the old tripartite year.
		Matthews in The Winter Solstice provides the lyrics of a 15th century carol which refers to an ancient battle between the two, with the Ivy representing the cold gloominess of winter and the Holly King, the jolly spirit of the season.
	www.schooloftheseasons.com /celsolstice.html (2753 words)

	2 Winter Solstice Projects
		Winter Solstice on December 21 is the shortest day of the year.
		After Winter Solstice each day becomes longer until the longest day of the year arrives around June 21st.Ý The solstices have been observed and celebrated by cultures throughout the world.
		On the day named as the solstice, the prayer sticks are plantedóat least one by each personóin small holes dug by the head of the household.
	www.care2.com /channels/solutions/home/327 (1145 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - Winter Solstice (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Pagan celebration of Winter Solstice (also known as Yule) is one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world.
		Oaks were seen as sacred and the winter fruit of the mistletoe was a symbol of life in the dark winter months.
		The Celts thought that the sun stood still for twelve days in the middle of winter and during this time a log was lit to conquer the darkness, banish evil spirits and bring luck for the coming year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/paganism/festivals/winter_solstice.shtml (317 words)

	Anderson Valley Brewing Co. - Winter Solstice Seasonal Ale
		From the first sip of Winter Solstice Seasonal Ale, your senses will be aroused with the vision of a glowing fire, warming the hearth and home, as gently drifting snow flakes silently blanket the trees outside.
		Winter Solstice Ale is great alone or as an accompaniment to any meal, and it has been known to liven and spice up nearly any social event.
		This coveted and much sought-after brew is released in November, just in time for the holidays, and by the first of the New Year will be only a fond memory.
	www.avbc.com /beers/solstice.html (310 words)

	List of Winter Solstice web sites
		Winter Solstice at: http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/astro/ Eric W. Weisstein has included two graphs showing when the solstice occurs, in the Gregorian calendar, and a chart listing the time of the solstice from 1908 to 2009 CE.
		Some amazing pictures of the 2003 winter solstice at Newgrange are featured at http://www.knowth.com One in particular is sized for use as a background on your computer desktop.
		Winter Solstice Celebrations for Families and Households at: http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/ Selena Fox discusses the focus of the celebration, including its timing, length, location, and featured elements.
	www.religioustolerance.org /w_solsti.htm (608 words)

	Circle Sanctuary - Winter Solstice
		Winter Solstice has been celebrated in cultures the world over for thousands of years.
		Have Winter Solstice Eve and Day be the central focus for your household, and conceptualize other holiday festivities, including New Year's office parties and Christmas visits with Christian relatives, as part of your Solstice celebration.
		Do a Solstice Eve ritual in which you meditate in darkness and then welcome the birth of the sun by lighting candles and singing chants and Pagan carols.
	www.circlesanctuary.org /pholidays/SolsticeArticle.html (845 words)

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