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Winter Solstice
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What does Winter Solstice mean?
noun
- The point in Earth's orbital path at which either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere is maximally tilted away from the Sun.
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At Cumanacoa, the dry season begins at the winter solstice, and lasts till the vernal equinox.
Every year this Virgin of the Sphere as she appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice gave birth to the sun.
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Before Christianity was established among the Danes, on every ninth year at the winter solstice, a monstrous sacrifice of 99 dogs was effected.
The chief of these is at the winter solstice.
But at the time of the winter solstice, in the month of Tebet, the sea grows restless, for then leviathan spouts up water, and the big fish become uneasy.