still life photograph of a bronze head of a bearded man with curly hair wears a red cap surrounded by evergreens with red berries, two cards displaying a painting of a man wearing a toga, a pine cone, a lit red candle, an unlit oil lamp, a clay boar, and a clay chicken; Carole Raddato 2015 CC-BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr
For those who celebrate, Io, Saturnalia!
Running from Dec 17 to ~23, #Saturnalia celebrated a #Roman Golden Age when #Saturnus ( #Saturn) ruled & taught his people #argriculture and civilized behavior by reversing the normal social order.
#SeasonofLight #calendars #timekeeping #Rome #history 🍎