Opinion: With each year, it has become easier for our family to embrace the solstice and let Christmas and its retail madness pass us by.
Bria Woods / San Antonio Report
Biblical historians can find no connection between the birth of Jesus and Dec. 25. Shepherds watching over herds suggests it was springtime when Joseph and Mary took refuge in an animal manger. Throughout the Roman Empire, which controlled the lands where Jesus of Nazareth would dwell, a census was being conducted at the time Joseph and Mary stopped in Bethlehem, an undertaking unlikely to have been conducted in winter.Nonprofit news is the future. Local news is the future.
Beyond all the partying and festive gatherings, the traditions celebrated on and around the solstice are rooted in the cycles of the seasons and people’s reliance on the fall harvest and animal husbandry to sustain themselves through the long, dark winters.
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