solstice

• My research indicates that many ancient cultures transposed religious concepts and symbolism inspired by total solar eclipse phenomena onto the winter solstice which is a less spectacular but much more regularly occurring and predictable "death" and "rebirth" of the sun. —  New Scientist - Online News
• For us the solstice is abolished, and we sturdily refuse to give up our midsummer till the first gleam of yellow comes on the leaves. —  The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
• Thus it runs in the winter and summer solstice, which is indeed the true reason of them Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 471, January 15, 1831
• The Midsummer Fires The great season for fire-festivals in Europe is the summer solstice, Midsummer Eve or Midsummer Day, which the church has dedicated to St. John the Baptist; the bonfires, the torches, and the burning wheels of the festival But the season at which these fire-festivals have been mostly generally held all over Europe is the summer solstice, that is Midsummer Eve (the twenty-third of June) or Midsummer Day (the twenty-fourth of June). —  Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul
• The Midsummer Fires BUT THE SEASON at which these firefestivals have been most generally held all over Europe is the summer solstice, that is Midsummer Eve (the twenty-third of June) or Midsummer day (the twenty-fourth of June). —  The Golden Bough

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