Unveiling the Esoteric Origins of Christian Holidays: Exploring the Hidden Symbolism Introduction: In our modern world, Christian holidays like Christmas and the Feast of the Assumption hold deep cultural significance. However, few are aware of the ancient pagan roots that underlie these celebrations. By delving into the esoteric origins of these holidays, we can uncover […]
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“Solstice” is a Latin word, by the way, coming to English from Old French and then Middle English, and originally derived from sol sun + status, the past participle of sistere to come to a stop, cause to stand. This makes sense if you think about the solstice as the sun’s path reaching an endpoint and then turning around and going the
For centuries, ancient civilizations have been fascinated with the movements of the celestial bodies, particularly the sun and the moon. They have observed the cycles of these celestial bodies and how they coincide with the body’s own cycles, leading to predictions and a deeper understanding of the universe. These sages and shamen understood the relationship
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Universal Time 2016 2016 Perihelion Jan 2 23 Equinoxes Mar 20 04 30 Sept 22 14 21 Aphelion July 4 16 Solstices June 20 22 34 Dec 21 10 44 2017 2017 Perihelion Jan 4 14 Equinoxes Mar 20 10 28 Sept 22 20 02 Aphelion July 3 20 Solstices June 21 04 24 Dec
Translation 1: To test his hypothesis that sunspot cycle influenced human activity, Tchijevsky constructed an Index of Mass Human Excitability covering each year form 500 BC to 1922 AD. He then investigated the histories of 72 countries during that period, noting signs of human unrest such as wars, revolutions, riots, expeditions and migrations, plus the
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More than three-quarters of all instances of human unrest—battles, upheavals, riots, revolutions, and wars—occur during the periods of the maximum number of sunspots in the Sun… So powerful is this cosmic zeitgeber that it may even influence our physical size, our longevity, our mental stability, our propensity to violence, and possibly even what we consider our uniquely
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If the eccentric orbit of the earth around the sun is the cause of Seasonal Affective Disorder rather than the varying amount of sunlight per day, then the yearly cycle of SAD in the southern hemisphere should be affected by the calendar month of the year rather than the shortest day of the year. Remember,
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The Laws of Planetary Motion I. The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse. II. The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times as the planet travels around the ellipse. III. The ratio of the squares of the revolutionary
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There is inconclusive data regarding seasonal affected mood disorder in the third world. This is due in large part to a lack of research funds. However an interesting study has been proposed that will compare specific mental illness found in the developed world and chart occurrence of mood disorders and correlate that seasonality to see how
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🔆 The Lost Calendar: Saturnalia, Solar New Year & the Sacred Drift What if our holiday season isn’t just tradition — but celestial memory? The winter holidays — from Saturnalia and Sol Invicta to Christmas and New Year’s — aren’t just cozy rituals or religious observances. They’re remnants of an ancient solar intelligence encoded in
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Holiday musings: Reversal of fortune is one of the most common themes of Christmas stories and movies. Stories of personal crisis and loves won and lost seems to be inherent in the season. You would be surprised to know that this idea dates back to over 2000 years ago to the celebration of Saturnalia where
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Journal of the American Heart Association Abstract Background A “Christmas holiday effect” showing elevated cardiovascular mortality over the Christmas holidays (December 25 to January 7) was demonstrated previously in study from the United States. To separate the effect of seasonality from any holiday effect, a matching analysis was conducted for New Zealand, where the Christmas
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The authors offer the following text to the public both realistically and with hope. Within the scientific world, large-scale movements tending towards unification seem powerless confronted with the information explosion of research and historicism in the philosophy of science. Outside of science, we notice also that both religious and secular ideologies claiming to energize mass
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The closeness of the orbit of the earth to the sun, it’s velocity and the intensity of the solar fields all coincide with the Winter Holidays in December. This change in bio-psychic energy seems to alter the perception of time. Many stories, books, movies and anecdotes support the validity of this feeling, Perhaps this is
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Occurrence of suicide and seasonal variation. Retamal P, Humphreys D. Departamento de Psiquiatria y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. nhorwitz@bello.dic.uchile.cl OBJECTIVE: To review the estimated suicide rates for the Region Metropolitan, the main socio-political center in Chile, for the period 1979-1994, and to determine whether they follow a seasonal pattern.
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Consider this; As the winter holidays approach, the earth is approaching the sun. It is gaining velocity at an increasing rate. This acceleration increases until the earth reaches perihelion. Then it begins to move away and decrease acceleration until around July 4th. So here it is, just at the time that we start to mark
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How fast does the Earth go at perihelion and aphelion? The formula for the velocity of an object at some distance r from the Sun is: v = sqrt[GM*(2/r – 1/a)] Where G is the universal gravitational constant, M is the mass of the Sun, and a is the planet’s semimajor axis. At perihelion,
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The Calendar before Julius Caesar’s Calendar Even this calendar not is important to postal historians (!) it is important to know why Julius Caesar introduced his famous “Julian Calendar” in 45 BC. We do not know exactly what happened in the many years before 45 BC but the calendar used had originally commenced in March
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Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the
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Jacques Ellul comments that while Technique is able to liberate man from the constraints of time and space that can never engender freedom. Ellul seems to point out that Technique is not a simple phenomena which releases mankind from constraint. Rather he points out that what Technique does is replace older, natural constraints with new
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