🪷 We revel in the Roman #Brumalia #Solstice festival honoring #Saturn #Cronus and #Ceres #Demeter. Four weeks of revelry which started November 24th and ends December 24th with the #Saturnalia and the "Waxing of the Light". Festival greeting: "Vives annos" Live for years! Photo: #SandraGore 🪷

🪷 #Solstice #Brumalia #Saturnalia: December 24th is the end of the four-week Ancient Roman #Brumalia winter solstice festival honouring #Saturn/#Cronus and #Ceres/#Demeter. The Brumalia included night-time feasting and merriment. ( #Antinous bust by #SandraGore the "Ghost of Christmas Present.") 🪷

🪐🎉🎄🍷🍻 On 17 December 497 BC Romans celebrated the first #Saturnalia, joyous festival of gift-giving and oracle role-playing games, the origin of many Yule/Christmas customs. In whatever way you celebrate the festive season, may the love and light of #Antinous fill your heart! (Photo: #SandraGore) 🪐

🪷 We revel in the Roman #Brumalia #Solstice festival honoring #Saturn/#Cronus and #Ceres/#Demeter. Four weeks of revelry which start November 24th and end December 24th with the #Saturnalia and the "Waxing of the Light". Festival greeting: "Vives annos" Live for years! Photo: #SandraGore 🪷