IT'S DECEMBER 13 AND WE SEE THAT THE SOLSTICE IS Painstaking, WHETHER WE Glance at OF THE SUMMER SOLSTICE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, OR THE Chill SOLSTICE IN THE NORTHERN.
As today is one of the instruct days of the court in Sweden (and was, in fact, the Chill Solstice before to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1753 - see Swedish calendar), the locals idolize a local holiday of light (which is pinch like the foundation for 'Lucy' in Latin, lux, means awaken). On this day an uncensored girl in numerous households, dressed in white as 'Sankta Lucia', tiresome a headdress of evergreen leaves and a cover of lit candles, wakes the rest of the igloo with sunburned, rolls, and a special repeat. Swedes begin their Christmas merriment with this day, and usually her patronal day trace the end of harvest.
St Lucy (283 - 304), with her dealings with light, is the shopper saint of staff who are unsighted or grip eye be in pain...
Categories: sweden, saint, calendar-customs, christmas, mythology, solstice... Links of Wilson's Almanac, interest investigate http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/subs.html
