...Asimilar catastrophe is repeated on St John's Day, at thesummer solstice, in which the sun stops and begins toretire, for which reason the light of day, from this timeto Christmas, grows less and less...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
... This is the phenomenon which occurs in the winter solstice onChristmas Eve and that of New Year's Day, in which we pass fromone year to another; in one night we become older by a year...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The coincidence of the festival with thesummer solstice can hardly be accidental...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The most elaborate ceremonies are conducted between the first frost of autumn and the second moon following the winter solstice...
Edward S. Curtis 「The North American Indian」
...27) identifies the turtle with the summer solsticeand the snail as the animal associated with the winter solstice...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...The Sun is new-born inmidwinter, at the solstice, and our “New” year follows, yet it is in thespring that, to this day, we keep our great resurrection festival...
Jane Ellen Harrison 「Ancient Art and Ritual」
...TheZuni Indians of New Mexico kindle a new fire by the friction ofwood both at the winter and the summer solstice...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...[Persian festival of fire at the winter solstice...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...From astronomy we find theeast, west, south, and north, as well as the theory of the heavens, theequinox, solstice, and courses of the stars...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...The analemma is a basis for calculationdeduced from the course of the sun, and found by observation of theshadow as it increases until the winter solstice...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...Note the star μ, which serves to point out the Winter Solstice, wherethe solstitial colure intersects the ecliptic...
William Tyler Olcott 「A Field Book of the Stars」
...Spring begins on March 21, the time of the vernal equinox;summer on June 21, at the summer solstice; autumn on September 22, atthe autumnal equinox; and winter on December 21, at the winter solstice...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...42°, and on the date ofobservation—September 28, 1909—the winter solstice of the northernhemisphere of Mars was just past...
E. Walter Maunder 「Are the Planets Inhabited?」
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