Holidays
What is up with holiday stress?
We are all familiar with the idea of holiday stress. That feeling that time is going by faster and faster from Autumn until New Years.
Tag: Christmas
Why is New Year just after the start of winter?
It seems strange that New Year is in the middle of the cold winter. Shouldn’t it be in spring time? Or winter equinox? Traditionally it
Holidays
Why is Christmas in December?
Why We Celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 Is it Jesus’ birthday, an ancient marketing ploy, or something else? By Andrew Santella via Slate.com How did
Holidays
Epiphany (holiday)
Epiphany (Greek for “to manifest” or “to show”), is a Christian feast day which celebrates the “shining forth” or revelation of God in human form
Seasonality
Revisiting the “Christmas Holiday Effect” in the Southern Hemisphere
Journal of the American Heart Association Abstract Background A “Christmas holiday effect” showing elevated cardiovascular mortality over the Christmas holidays (December 25 to January 7)
Holidays
Ancient Roman Holidays & Festivals
Ancient Roman Holidays & Festivals Saturnalia December 17 At first lasting only one day, Saturnalia was the Roman midwinter celebration of the Solstice* and the greatest of all the
Perihelion
Saturnalia Winter Solstice in Pagan Rome
✴️ Saturnalia and the Perihelion Effect: When the Sun Returns, So Do We “Io Saturnalia!”This jubilant Roman greeting — shouted in the streets from December