Happy Summer Solstice to all. One of the two most important days in the year as far as I am concerned with the other being the Winter Solstice!
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It's the same here in Canada Tim. Father's Day is always the same date as the UK (3rd Sunday in June) but Mother's Day is different dates.
In the UK Mother's Day (or given it's 'correct' UK term 'Mothering Sunday') is a moveable date based on the Christian calendar where Mother's Day is always the 4th Sunday in Lent and therefore three Sundays before Easter Sunday. Why is Easter Sunday always an a different date I hear you ask?
If a guy was allegedly nailed to a couple of planks (let's call him 'Brian') on a Friday then 'Brian' was magicked back to life on the following Sunday then those dates must be fixed in stone (much like the one that they allegedly rolled across his tomb entrance). If 'Brian' died on a Friday that would be a specific date and if he suddenly came back to life on the 3rd day after that (i.e. a Sunday) that would be a specific date too and not some arbitrary date that floats around the calendar. If you had a relative that died on Friday the 27th of March for example you would acknowledge his or her death on the 27th of March every year not the last Friday in March!
Unless..............
If you were creating a new religion thousands of years ago and saw that people were already celebrating a spring festival of fertility and renewal dedicated to the Goddess Eostre but you didn't like that idea and considered it 'Pagan' and wanted to celebrate 'Brian' on that day instead and you were powerful enough to force those people to change their belief systems (even if they didn't want to) then over time maybe celebrating the death of 'Brian' could replace the celebration of Eostre. But when would you celebrate that. The Eostre festival was always celebrated at the time of the Vernal Equinox (i.e. when day and night were the same length) but you wanted a different date that was close. Well, you could take the event of the Vernal Equinox which was already being celebrated and then add to it something that could easily be seen by people without calendars, like for example the next full moon, and then claim that the first Sunday after that was the day that 'Brian' magically came back to life and it shall be known as 'Easter Sunday' (how similar sounding is that Eostre?!) and for good measure claim that 'Brian' died three days before that (i.e. on the Friday) then that would be 'good' right (a 'Good Friday' go figure)!
Isn't it funny how a celebration of the day 'Brian' was nailed to his planks in this new fangled religion that has been created is all based around the cycles of the sun and moon relative to the position of the Earth in space. All that sounds a bit 'Pagan' to me!
Just for reference too Tim, Mother's Day in North America is always the 2nd Sunday in May, that's so much easier to work out than sun and moon cycles!
In the UK Mother's Day (or given it's 'correct' UK term 'Mothering Sunday') is a moveable date based on the Christian calendar where Mother's Day is always the 4th Sunday in Lent and therefore three Sundays before Easter Sunday. Why is Easter Sunday always an a different date I hear you ask?
If a guy was allegedly nailed to a couple of planks (let's call him 'Brian') on a Friday then 'Brian' was magicked back to life on the following Sunday then those dates must be fixed in stone (much like the one that they allegedly rolled across his tomb entrance). If 'Brian' died on a Friday that would be a specific date and if he suddenly came back to life on the 3rd day after that (i.e. a Sunday) that would be a specific date too and not some arbitrary date that floats around the calendar. If you had a relative that died on Friday the 27th of March for example you would acknowledge his or her death on the 27th of March every year not the last Friday in March!
Unless..............
If you were creating a new religion thousands of years ago and saw that people were already celebrating a spring festival of fertility and renewal dedicated to the Goddess Eostre but you didn't like that idea and considered it 'Pagan' and wanted to celebrate 'Brian' on that day instead and you were powerful enough to force those people to change their belief systems (even if they didn't want to) then over time maybe celebrating the death of 'Brian' could replace the celebration of Eostre. But when would you celebrate that. The Eostre festival was always celebrated at the time of the Vernal Equinox (i.e. when day and night were the same length) but you wanted a different date that was close. Well, you could take the event of the Vernal Equinox which was already being celebrated and then add to it something that could easily be seen by people without calendars, like for example the next full moon, and then claim that the first Sunday after that was the day that 'Brian' magically came back to life and it shall be known as 'Easter Sunday' (how similar sounding is that Eostre?!) and for good measure claim that 'Brian' died three days before that (i.e. on the Friday) then that would be 'good' right (a 'Good Friday' go figure)!
Isn't it funny how a celebration of the day 'Brian' was nailed to his planks in this new fangled religion that has been created is all based around the cycles of the sun and moon relative to the position of the Earth in space. All that sounds a bit 'Pagan' to me!
Just for reference too Tim, Mother's Day in North America is always the 2nd Sunday in May, that's so much easier to work out than sun and moon cycles!
Get out of here Charlie, that's not got anything to do with the Solstice!
That's any morning of the week over there in 'Sam Clam's Disco'!
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
It's the same here in Canada Tim. Father's Day is always the same date as the UK (3rd Sunday in June) but Mother's Day is different dates.
In the UK Mother's Day (or given it's 'correct' UK term 'Mothering Sunday') is a moveable date based on the Christian calendar where Mother's Day is always the 4th Sunday in Lent and therefore three Sundays before Easter Sunday. Why is Easter Sunday always an a different date I hear you ask?
If a guy was allegedly nailed to a couple of planks (let's call him 'Brian') on a Friday then 'Brian' was magicked back to life on the following Sunday then those dates must be fixed in stone (much like the one that they allegedly rolled across his tomb entrance). If 'Brian' died on a Friday that would be a specific date and if he suddenly came back to life on the 3rd day after that (i.e. a Sunday) that would be a specific date too and not some arbitrary date that floats around the calendar. If you had a relative that died on Friday the 27th of March for example you would acknowledge his or her death on the 27th of March every year not the last Friday in March!
Unless..............
If you were creating a new religion thousands of years ago and saw that people were already celebrating a spring festival of fertility and renewal dedicated to the Goddess Eostre but you didn't like that idea and considered it 'Pagan' and wanted to celebrate 'Brian' on that day instead and you were powerful enough to force those people to change their belief systems (even if they didn't want to) then over time maybe celebrating the death of 'Brian' could replace the celebration of Eostre. But when would you celebrate that. The Eostre festival was always celebrated at the time of the Vernal Equinox (i.e. when day and night were the same length) but you wanted a different date that was close. Well, you could take the event of the Vernal Equinox which was already being celebrated and then add to it something that could easily be seen by people without calendars, like for example the next full moon, and then claim that the first Sunday after that was the day that 'Brian' magically came back to life and it shall be known as 'Easter Sunday' (how similar sounding is that Eostre?!) and for good measure claim that 'Brian' died three days before that (i.e. on the Friday) then that would be 'good' right (a 'Good Friday' go figure)!
Isn't it funny how a celebration of the day 'Brian' was nailed to his planks in this new fangled religion that has been created is all based around the cycles of the sun and moon relative to the position of the Earth in space. All that all sounds a bit 'Pagan' to me!
Just for reference too Tim, Mother's Day in North America is always the 2nd Sunday in May, that's so much easier to work out than sun and moon cycles!
Is this 'The Life of Brian'
MrZippy
SOH-CM-2026
Nope! Late Fall and Winter there is little to no fog. Maybe some chances of winter rain storms but very little to no foggy days!Get out of here Charlie, that's not got anything to do with the Solstice!
That's any morning of the week over there in 'Sam Clam's Disco'!
Back when I was working, I saw a lot of tourists downtown in the Summer wearing shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops and it was foggy and cold!
The famous quote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco," is frequently attributed to Mark Twain, but literary scholars confirm there is no evidence he ever said it. Twain lived in the city from 1864 to 1866, and while he frequently lamented its chilly, fog-choked summers, he did not coin the exact phrase.
