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Koliada, a Slavic winter festival; Lohri, a Punjabi winter solstice festival; Saturnalia, an ancient Roman winter festival in honour of the deity Saturn; Yaldā Night, an Iranian festival celebrated on the "longest and darkest night of the year". Nardoqan, the birth of the sun, is an ancient Turkic festival that celebrates the winter solstice.
The Brumalia (Latin: Brumalia [bruːˈmaːlia]) were a winter solstice festival celebrated in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. [1] [2] In Rome there had been the minor holiday of Bruma on November 24, which turned into large scale end of the year festivities in Constantinople and Christianity. The festival included night-time feasting ...
This festival could represent the early November festival of Samain, or possibly the summer solstice. [23] Six months later is the month GIAMON, which appears to contain the word for "winter". [24] An early Irish glossary, Sanas Cormaic, gives Gamain as "November, the winter month after the festival of Samain". [25]
Yaldā Night (Persian: شب یلدا, romanized: shab-e yaldâ or Chelle Night (also Chellah Night, Persian: شب چلّه, romanized: shab-e chelle) is an ancient festival in Iran, [1] Afghanistan, [2] Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan that is celebrated on the winter solstice. [3]
Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December in the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities until 19 December. By the 1st century BC, the celebration had been extended until 23 December, for a total of seven days of festivities. [ 1 ]
Lohri is an ancient mid-winter festival originating in regions near the Himalayan mountains where winter is colder than the rest of the subcontinent. Hindus and Sikhs traditionally lit bonfires in their yards after the weeks of the Rabi season cropping work, socialized around the fire, sang and danced together as they marked the end of winter ...
Ancient megalithic sites Newgrange and Stonehenge were carefully aligned with the winter solstice sunrise and sunset. [16] While commonly referred to as "Yule", after the Germanic and later Northern European winter festival of the same name, those celebrations by Germanic heathens likely followed the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples.
Sadeh is a mid winter festival that was celebrated with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Persia. [2] It was a festivity to honor fire and to defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold. History