Happy Solstice, Everyone

Hope everyone is warm and cozy in this shortest of days and longest of nights. The days start getting longer again now! Yay! But before that was known, people thought the light might just keep going and go away so they lit bonfires to coax the sun!

In the northern hemisphere, today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year and the longest night. It's officially the first day of winter and one of the oldest known holidays in human history. Anthropologists believe that solstice celebrations go back at least 30,000 years, before humans even began farming on a large scale.
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Ancient peoples believed that because daylight was waning, it might go away forever, so they lit huge bonfire to tempt the sun to come back. The tradition of decorating our houses and our trees with lights at this time of year is passed down from those ancient bonfires.

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You too BH
And to the symbolic reversal of fortune!