quote: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.
One reveller, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "We formed a ring and held hands, and touched the stones. The man with the green cloak was there.
"But there were an awful lot of red faces," she said.
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A spokeswoman for English Heritage, which looks after the site, said: "People assume because the Summer Solstice is the 21st June, the Winter Solstice will be the 21st December.
"They should always check."
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What matter facts to our belief? Whether 'tis historically accurate that events should happen on a particular day, what matters is our belief in the event and our continuance of the ancient rituals of our clan.
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Green cloaks, red faces...how very festive.
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They were a lot closer to the actual day of their celebration then the Christians are to the day the Jesus was born.
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difference being that none aside from the most naive of Christians see 25 December as the *date* of Jesus' birth, as oppose to a day to celebrate that it happened.
what NZUL said.
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I don't see why its an error. The solstice was on the 21st for much of the world, no? So, considering that world time is a modern construction, it should be considered well to celebrate within the 24 hour period before or after.
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