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tomos:
Hm, a video? For what?
-Tuxman (December 22, 2015, 05:48 PM)
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Newgrange that I asked you about. It's a 5,000 y.o. 'passage tomb':

Once a year, at the winter solstice, the rising sun shines directly along the long passage, illuminating the inner chamber and revealing the carvings inside, notably the triple spiral on the front wall of the chamber. This illumination lasts for about 17 minutes. [..] The sunlight enters the passage through a specially contrived opening, known as a roofbox, directly above the main entrance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange#Purpose

40hz:
I suspect it was always a festival of light...
-tomos (December 22, 2015, 05:19 PM)
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One of them anyway. ;D

Depending on which pagan or craft practitioner you speak to, the festival of light could also be Imbloc, which is traditionally celebrated on midwinter's day and marks the return of spring. The Christian feastday of Candlemas (Feb 2 usually) was conveniently located next to it in the same manner Christmas was relocated close to the solstice - for purely practical rather than scriptural reasons.

When reprogramming a society's spiritual belief system, it's generally wiser to co-opt and meet the older tradition half way, rather than try to engineer a complete and immediate overhaul.  :)

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