Blue sky; wispy clouds; low sun reflected in wetland.
#WinterSolstice #Grianstad #AlbanArthan - When the #water gods reclaim the #wetlands of #YnysMôn.
#Fen #Mire #Bog #Limestone #NRW #BlueSky #winterwonders #envhist #landscape #Wales #Anglesey
📷Cors Bodeilio National #Nature Reserve - wellies essential!
Inniu #GrianstadanGheimhridh - roth na bliana ag casadh i dtreo an tsolais arís.
#Grianstad an Gheimhridh sona daoibh!
Happy #WinterSolstice!
The darkness we face today is more than mere astronomy, yet it too can - & will - be overcome
#Solstice2025 #BrúnaBóinne #peace 🕊️ #NewgrangeSolstice #SíanBhrú
Time to imagine myself standing on a globe trying to visualise what’s going on. #solstice #grianstad
A reminder that there are live streams from #Newgrange this morning: hopefully the weather will cooperate, and we'll get to see sunlight entering into the passage tomb. #Grianstad #WinterSolstice #Ireland #Speirgorm
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#Grianstad an Gheimhridh 2025.
#SpéirGhorm
Grianstad an tSamhraidh sona daoibh!
#grianstadantsamhraidh #grianstad #grianstad2025 #SummerSolstice #SummerSolstice2025 #Solstice
Blessed Grianstad an Gheimhridh from my family to yours. As we walk through mid winter may the light return to you and yours. Much love. #grianstad #wintersolstice #irishpagan
#Grianstad Roth na bliana ag tiontú i dtreo an tsolais arís agus i dtreo na síochána fosta tá súil againn #EamhainMhacha
#Solstice The wheel of the year turning once more towards the light and towards peace we hope #NavanFort
And so the longest night is over… #grianstad an Gheimhridh
This description of the God being depicted as differing life stages of a human based on the solar cycle wouldn't be out of place in a 20th/21st Century #Neopagan or introduction to #Wicca book but it's from the 5th Century CE.... #pagansky #polytheism #solstice #grianstad #paganism #polytheism
![More Macrobius's Saturnalia book this time chap 18
Page 129
Lord Bacchus, Lover of the Laurel, Apollo the Healer, making
sweet music on the lyre and Aeschylus writes to the same effect:
Apollo, the ivy-crowned, the Bacchic god, the Seer.
[7] I first maintained that Apollo is to be indentified with the sun, and I afterward explained that Liber Pater is himself Apollo; and so there can be no doubt but that the sun and Liber Pater are to be regarded as manifestations of the same deity. Nevertheless the point shall be established distinctly by yet clearer proofs. [8] In the performance of sacred rites a mysterious rule of religion ordains that the sun shall be called Apollo when it is in the upper hemisphere, that is to say, by day, and be held to be Dionysus, or Liber Pater, when it is in the lower hemisphere, that is to say, at night. [9] Likewise, statues of Liber Pater represent him sometimes as a child and sometimes as a young man; again, as a man with a beard and also as an old man, as for example the statue of the god which the Greeks call Bassareus* and Briseus, and that which in Campania the Neapolitans worship under the name Hebon. [10] These differences in age have reference to the sun, for at the winter solstice the sun would seem to be a little child, like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on an appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant.6 Afterward, however, as the days go on and lengthen, the sun at the spring equinox acquires strength in a way comparable to growth to adolescence, and so the god is given the appearance of a young man. Subsequently, he is represented in full maturity, with a beard, at the summer solstice, when the sun’s growth is completed. After that, the days shorten, as though with the approach of his old age—hence the fourth of the figures by which the god is portrayed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jvelfy3ft5pant7jfsu4p637/bafkreig4lo4r26uwu5hgpobdpnnyotntve6ltrydscujydfre7nyglxfla)
More Macrobius's Saturnalia book this time chap 18 Page 129 Lord Bacchus, Lover of the Laurel, Apollo the Healer, making sweet music on the lyre and Aeschylus writes to the same effect: Apollo, the ivy-crowned, the Bacchic god, the Seer. [7] I first maintained that Apollo is to be indentified with the sun, and I afterward explained that Liber Pater is himself Apollo; and so there can be no doubt but that the sun and Liber Pater are to be regarded as manifestations of the same deity. Nevertheless the point shall be established distinctly by yet clearer proofs. [8] In the performance of sacred rites a mysterious rule of religion ordains that the sun shall be called Apollo when it is in the upper hemisphere, that is to say, by day, and be held to be Dionysus, or Liber Pater, when it is in the lower hemisphere, that is to say, at night. [9] Likewise, statues of Liber Pater represent him sometimes as a child and sometimes as a young man; again, as a man with a beard and also as an old man, as for example the statue of the god which the Greeks call Bassareus* and Briseus, and that which in Campania the Neapolitans worship under the name Hebon. [10] These differences in age have reference to the sun, for at the winter solstice the sun would seem to be a little child, like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on an appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant.6 Afterward, however, as the days go on and lengthen, the sun at the spring equinox acquires strength in a way comparable to growth to adolescence, and so the god is given the appearance of a young man. Subsequently, he is represented in full maturity, with a beard, at the summer solstice, when the sun’s growth is completed. After that, the days shorten, as though with the approach of his old age—hence the fourth of the figures by which the god is portrayed.
Macrobius' #Saturnalia BTW is where we get literary evidence for a #WinterSolstice birth of a #pagan God syncretised with Dionysus & the Sun with depictions and worship of the God as an infant "the God is accordingly shown as a young infant" #Polytheism #pagansky #grianstad #Solstice.
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