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Winter Solstice: People
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The Solstice provides hope for the rebirth of Spring after the “death” that is Winter--in other words, life, in this world, and Christ provides for a rebirth in the next world. However, over the millennia, people stopped interpreting their religions metaphorically and instead began seeing them as historical events, holy in themselves. This obscured the connections to the Solstice, but they can easily be uncovered again. Take the Christmas tree, for example.
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In the ancient traditions of the Kalash people of Pakistan, during winter solstice, a demigod returns to collect prayers and deliver them to Dezao, the supreme being. "During this celebrations women and girls are purified by taking ritual baths. The men pour water over their heads while they hold up bread. Then the men and boys are purified with water and must not sit on chairs until evening when goat's blood is sprinkled on their faces. Following this purification, a great festival begins, with singing, dancing, bonfires, and feasting on goat tripe and other delicacies".[8]
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''Winter Solstice" is ultimately undercut by its fictional elements and its flat characters. It isn't raw enough to convey a true slice of life, and its talented actors can't get any traction playing people who have one foot in cinematographer Harlan Bosmajian's stylized visual reality and the other in a standard made-for-TV movie, minus the plot.
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Around 60 people turned up at to celebrate the Winter Solstice at Stonehenge - on the wrong day. After negotiating with site-managers English Heritage, the crowd performed traditional solstice activities on Thursday morning, and left peacefully.
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