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| Darth Seti I Shadim |
The Blessings of SolsticeSeeing that there was a thread for Christmas & Chanukkah, I thought I'd start a thread for all the heathens here.There has to be at least one, right? Anyway, the Winter Solstice is on Thursday Dec. 21st.Maintaining the best Sith tradition, I thought I would post one of the darker festivals of the Solstice season. Theres plenty of love & light variety of solstice celebration online, if you're interested. I'm a little too demented for that...so... Korochun From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Karachun, Korochun or Kračún is a Slavic holiday similar to Halloween as a day when the Black God and other evil spirits are most potent. It was celebrated by pagan Slavs on the longest night of the year, i.e., the night of the winter solstice (December 21). On this night, Hors, symbolising old sun, becomes smaller as the days become shorter in the Northern Hemisphere, and dies on December 22nd, the winter solstice. It is said to be defeated by the dark and evil powers of the Black God. On December 23rd Hors is resurrected and becomes the new sun, Koleda. Most scholars have derived this word from the Romanian сrăсiún for Christmas, but a recently discovered Novgorodian manuscript makes the Slavic origin more probable. Max Vasmer derived the word from the Common Slavonic for "to step forward". In this case, Karachun may be translated as "the day which connects the old year with the new one". It is opposed to the summer solstice holiday, Ivan Kupala. Modern scholars tend to associate this holiday with the ancestor worship. On this day, Western Slavs burned fires at cemeteries to keep their loved ones warm, they organized dinings in the honour of the dead so as they would not suffer from hunger. They also lit wooden logs at local crossroads. In some Slavic languages, the word came to denote unexpected death of a young man and the evil spirit who makes life shorter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korochun So have a safe Korochun!! 
- Seti |
| Darth Acheron |
The same to you my friend!
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| Jiub |
How disturbing... 
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| Jaden Nightsaber |
Sounds fun! 
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| Darth Seti I Shadim |
Sounds fun to me too. lol Most of our traditions are a hybrid mixture of so many cultural influences that the further back you go, the weirder it gets. 
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| Darth Acheron |
How'd you get into it? Was it you parents, or were you drawn to it out of interest? |