Monday, June 21, 2010

The Summer Solstice

Can't believe I almost missed it...

Image from Wikimedia.Commons

It lacks the cachet of winter solstice - which has been claimed by numerous religions over the millenia - but the two together probably constitute the holidays mankind has been celebrating longer than any others.  Did the solstices provide us our first sense that we lived in an ordered cosmos?

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