Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!crsp!pesnta!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-sdd!andrea From: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (andrea) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <3400004@hp-sdd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 16:58:00 EST Article-I.D.: hp-sdd.3400004 Posted: Sun Jan 13 16:58:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 07:58:41 EST References: <-202800@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - San Diego, CA Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:nsc:-202800:hp-sdd:3400004:37777777600:824 Nf-From: hp-sdd!andrea Jan 14 13:58:00 1985 > >Not to flame an article such as this one, but "many religions", Chuq? >Christianity is the only religion I know of with a major holiday in December. >Judaism has only a minor holiday. > All of the older nature-rooted religions now lumped together as "pagan", as well as the newer mysticisms which have grown from them, celebrate a major holiday on or around the winter solstice. The darkest time of the year, when the days start waxing longer and the promise of life to come is nurtured in the midst of death and bleakness, has been an important time for symbolic and spiritual rebirth for many centuries before Christ. Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 487-4100 x4664 net: {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hp-sdd!andrea ...searchlights casting for faults in the clouds of delusion