Saturnalia Winter Solstice in Pagan Rome
✴️ Saturnalia and the Perihelion Effect: When the Sun Returns, So Do We “Io Saturnalia!”This jubilant Roman greeting — shouted in the streets from December 17 to 23 — marked a time when everything flipped: masters served slaves, wars stopped, and joy ran wild. But behind the revelry lay something deeper, something cosmological. Something solar. …