Winter-solstice Sentence Examples

Tonight, the twenty of us still here are going to celebrate the winter solstice with a big party.

The area north of the winter solstice line is designated for ceremonies.

According to this, the days at the summer solstice were twenty-four hours in length, and conversely at the winter solstice the nights were of equal duration.

The world is becoming a more dangerous place for you, and I'd hoped we could wait until the winter solstice to perform the rite.

He was early this year, but he.d rather visit now than risk he.d be grounded during winter solstice in a month.

Then he lost a mighty battle with the Oak King who ruled from the winter solstice until the next summer solstice.

Send them at the winter solstice - or the summer solstice.

We visit the neolithic long barrow of Stoney Littleton near Bath, which is aligned to the winter solstice sunrise.

C. Biot to the date II II B.C. Measured from the winter solstice of that epoch, they corresponded, in conformity with the Chinese method of observation by intervals of what we now call righ t ascension, to equal portions of the celestial equator.

In the cycle of the zodiac, the annual rebirth of the sun takes place at the winter solstice.

Some tomb passages were aligned so that the rising sun of the winter solstice would shine down them.

These are the equinoxes, solstices and cross-quarter days, progressing clockwise from the winter solstice at the top.

Here in Gypping in the Marsh we are busy planning our annual winter solstice celebrations.

The Christians pinched the festive season from the Western European pagan Yuletide celebration of Winter Solstice.

In fact, they noted that the longest day of the year occurred on the summer solstice while the shortest day occurred on winter solstice.

Greenery in the house at the winter solstice is an old, old tradition.

A celebration around the winter solstice was a common practice throughout the northern hemisphere for centuries, but it has not always been a Christmas holiday.

To honor him, celebrants arranged great month-long feasts and parties starting the week prior to the winter solstice.

Brumalia is based on the Latin word bruma, meaning winter solstice.

These were given at a feast during the winter solstice.

Other cultures around the world celebrated winter solstice and spring’s approach in a similar fashion.

Because Christmas and winter solstice fall around the same time each year, people inevitably merged customs from the two holidays, beginning during Constantine’s rule.

The Chinese New Year Day is the first day of the first new moon after the winter solstice month.

A Chinese year can consist of twelve or thirteen months depending when the winter solstice falls during a leap year.

The 2012 prophecy is said to originate from the ancient Mayan calendar that stops on the winter solstice date of December 21, 2012.

The 2012 winter solstice occurs on December 21st.