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Thread #65747 Message #1085360
Posted By: Mark Clark
03-Jan-04 - 03:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: What do you do when it's all over?
Subject: RE: BS: What do you do when it's all over?
Actually, I don't think it was originally a solstice event. The Church moved what had been a minor feast day to December so the unstopable festivities of Saturnalia could have a Christian underpinning. This article by Dale A. Robbins, a person with whose work I have no familiarity, seems to contain the central points.