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| | Saturnalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Saturnalia was the feast at which the the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn, which took place on 17 December. | | | The customary greeting for the occasion is a "Io, Saturnalia!" — io (pronounced "yo") being a Latin interjection related to "ho" (as in "Ho, praise to Saturn"). | | | It is a widely-held theory that Christians in the fourth century assigned December 25th (the Winter Solstice on the Julian calendar) as Christ's birthday (and thus Christmas) because pagans already observed this day as a holiday. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
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| | The Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235) |
| | The facts are that neither are at all Christian and both have their roots in the mystery cults, The Saturnalia, the worship of the Mother goddess system and the worship of the Sun god. | | | The process thus entered Christianity by means of the earlier December festival, which was originally derived from the worship of Saturn and Opis in the Saturnalia, and its association with the Heavenly Virgin or Mother goddess and her infant child. | | | The rites of the solstice then took over from the original Saturnalia but the period then became lengthened from three to seven days to which was added the twelve days. |
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http://www.logon.org/english/s/p235.html
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| | saturnalia |
| | Apart from the masquerades and mayhem, Saturnalia was a holy day sacred to Saturn himself. | | | After sacrifice at the temple, there was a riotous drunken feast with the celebrants shouting "Io, Saturnalia!" endlessly. | | | Families gathered together, much as we do still, to relax with a short break after hard work, to spend time with the children of the house, to share the spiritual renewal in the symbolic rebirth of the Divine and to welcome a new year. |
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http://myths.allinfoabout.com/feature115.html
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| | holiday attire: Christmas Saturnalia |
| | Saturnalia during early Roman history as the feast days for God Saturn. | | | Even so, Saturnalia featured mast aspects of our modern Christmas and New Year: rest and relaxation, evnts with family and friends, the beginning of the new Solar year, prayers for Winter crops, and the honoring of the pertinent deities. | | | Feasting: Feasting was a very important part of Saturnalia as it is with modern Christmas. |
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http://histclo.hispeed.com/act/holiday/xmas/holxp-sat.html
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| | The Xmas Story Part 3 |
| | This was because of a strange Eastern religion, Mithraism, whose god Mithras was identified with the Unconquered Sun. | | | Saturn, in whose honor this feast was held, was the oldest and most benign deity in ancient Italy and was fabled to have reigned during the Golden Age. | | | Emperor Aurelian had proclaimed Mithraism as the official state religion of the Roman Empire, but "Christianity" becomes the new religion under Constantine, and the Catholic Church becomes faced with the struggle to convert the pagans. |
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http://www.prime.org/xmas3.htm
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| | Saturnalia - A Winter Solstice Ritual |
| | In the Julian calendar, the Saturnalia took place on Dec. 17; it was preceded by the Consualia (Dec. 15) and followed by the Opalia (Dec. 19). | | | The traditional robe is the Synthesis and the hat is the Pileus. | | | This ritual is dedicated to the Gods and may be used for any nonprofit purpose, provided that its source is acknowledged. |
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http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/Saturnalia.html
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| | Saturnalia Skit & more: Brennus Legranus' Latin Version |
| | Nunc ad lectos eamus omnes, nam cras Saturnalia incipient. | | | Then we shall all go out to the Temple of Saturn to witness the priests as they ceremoniously untie the woollen bonds around the feet of the god Saturn. | | | You must persuade the master that Saturnalia is starting today. |
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http://www.txclassics.org/brennussaturnalia.htm
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| | Duncan Royale Saturnalia King |
| | A Saturnalia King was chosen by lot to preside over the eight day festival and to represent the old god. | | | Eventually the old god was deposed, but each year at the winter solstice the people relived his happy reign. | | | Centuries later, this aspect of the Saturnalia would turn up again in the person of the Lord of Misrule. |
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http://www.christmas-treasures.com/duncan_royale/Collection/SantaIII/SaturnaliaKing.htm
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| | Saturnalia 2001 Memorabilia Page 1 |
| | While the poor piggie was being grilled the prietess prayed to the god and the rest of us followed her lead and prentended we weren't looking at the sizzling meat. | | | Syrinx, who doesn't usually drink, too took a sip to honor the god. | | | pious crowd gathered at the temple of Saturn at the last night of Saturnalia, 2001. |
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http://www.historywalker.com/events/saturnaliapix/saturnalia2001.html
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| | Pre-Christian Cults in the Ancient World |
| | This festival was the time for great feasts during which houses were decorated with green plants. | | | The festival of the sigillaria, or terra-cotta seals was a pagan Roman holiday. | | | The cult of Mithras came from Persia and spread during the IIIrd and IVth centuries B.C. The cult has many similarities with Christian ceremonies and rites: baptism, communion wafer, Sunday rest. |
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http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/noel/angl/cultes.htm
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| | The Real Story of Christmas Origin of Christmas How it Began |
| | Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them into their homes and decorated them, and this observance was adopted and painted with a Christian veneer by the Church. | | | century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. | | | To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25 |
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http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm
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| | Saturnalia Special |
| | Saturn, after all, was the Lord of Mirth and joviality, as well as the god of sowing. | | | So many Roman Saturnalia traditions existed that, when the (Roman) Christian Church decided to celebrate Christ?s birth on December 25, the Saturnalia traditions were taken over wholesale. | | | The festival dates varied through the course of Roman history, but began as the feast day of Saturn (December 17) and his wife, Ops (December 19), both ancient Roman fertility deities. |
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http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/70005
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| | SATURNALIA |
| | During the last day of this festival, it was traditional for masters to change places with their household slaves. | | | Not only do we have superbly trained troops, but being completely free of command allows Centurions and Legion Commanders to concentrate on murder. | | | Note of caution to those who are naturally thinking, "Hmmmm, what a perfect time to strike! |
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http://www.romanempire.net/romepage/ArtGallery/saturnalia.htm
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| | Io Saturnalia |
| | The saturnalia was originally a feast of saturn held in mid-december. | | | There were several holiday festivals associated with the saturnalia. | | | This page will be up all this month. |
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http://www.mccsc.edu/~blaw/students/saturnalia.htm
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| | History Channel - Christmas |
| | It is commonly believed that the church chose this date in an effort to adopt and absorb the traditions of the pagan Saturnalia festival. | | | First called the Feast of the Nativity, the custom spread to Egypt by 432 and to England by the end of the sixth century. | | | In Rome, where winters were not as harsh as those in the far north, Saturnalia—a holiday in honor of Saturn, the god of agriculture—was celebrated. |
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http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/christmas/real2.html
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| | Saturnalia |
| | Augustus was alarmed by the this long period of merry-making and tried to reduce the festival to three days, but nobody paid any attention to him. | | | Note the entrance to the treasury under the temple in the lower right hand corner of the photograph. | | | The festival of Saturn, called the Saturnalia, was originally a one day festival on the fourteenth day before the kalends of January (December 17th), but, because of its popularity, by the end of the republic it had been extended to a seven day celebration. |
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http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/romnlife/strnalia.htm
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| | Saturnalia Practices of Nova Romans |
| | You must schedule a time for just sitting and enjoying your decorated place be it a castle or a cave or anything in between, You should be the one to enjoy your creation the most. | | | Without a fire place to burn it traditionally, I thought the candles made an acceptable Neo-Pagan adaption. | | | Flavia Claudia Juliana: Saturnalia festivities began with ritual and sacrifices in the Temple of Saturn. |
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http://www.novaroma.org/religio_romana/saturnalia.html
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| | NPR : From Saturnalia to Santa Claus : Alphonse Vinh |
| | The birth of Jesus is documented in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and illustrated in nativity scenes decorating living rooms and lawns all over North America. | | | Many Christian traditions were scheduled around early pagan festivals to increase pagan participation in religious rituals. | | | Roman Catholics first celebrated Christmas in 336 A.D., but it's likely that the early Christians tied the date of their celebration to a much older tradition, Saturnalia. |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/musings/2002/dec/christmas.html
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| | Io, Saturnalia |
| | After the temple sacrifice or the home pre-cenaeal prayers on the evening of December 17, the exhortation "Io, Saturnalia" was the signal to start serious partying in honor of the god. | | | Saturnalia started as a one day celebration but soon became a seven-day party and the most popular of the ancient Roman festivals. | | | A "Lord of Misrule" was selected in each household (still done in some British Christmas celebrations) and jokes and pranks were the order of the day. |
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http://www.mmdtkw.org/VSaturnalia.html
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| | Oak, Holly, and Yuletide Jollies |
| | They represent reasons for celebration in the Christmas tradition and the earlier pagan rites: rebirth and everlasting life told in the stories of the birth, death and resurrection of Hercules, Dionysus, Mithra, Horus, Jesus, Arthur and many others. | | | Many believe the ritual to have descended from the ancient Roman Saturnalia festival. | | | Saturnalia (named for Saturn, the Roman God of sowing) was observed from roughly December 17 through December 25. |
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http://www.widdershins.org/vol8iss6/10.htm
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| | Winter Solstice |
| | We see here a pattern: a festival for Consus (God of the Storage-bin) followed in four days by a festival for Ops (Goddess of Plenty). | | | The household chooses the Saturnalicius Princeps (Master of the Saturnalia), the "Lord of Misrule," who is free to order others to do his bidding. | | | Of the Saturnalia, Statius said, "Time shall not destroy that Holy Day, so long as the hills of Latium endure and Father Tiber, while your city of Roma and the Capitol remain" - and indeed it has not been destroyed, only disguised. |
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http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/SF/WinSol.html
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| | Saturnalia |
| | And Citizen Senex Caecilius presents an Account of Saturnalia Gift-Giving (preceded by his Advent Calendar). | | | A description of the Saturnalia is available from our resident scholar, L. Aelius Stilo, in his Encyclopedia Romana. | | | One of SPQR's oldest traditions is a Saturnalia thread. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/feaudrey/saturnal.htm
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| | Merry Saturnalia |
| | : From the Roman feast of Saturnalia, integrated into Xmas in 375 AD when the church first set Christ's birthday as December 25th. | | | The fact is that the Roman celebrations around the winter solstice (December 21st), starting with the feast of Saturnalia and ending with the Sol Invictus festival, also lasted 12 days. | | | All over the world, the solstice is connected with rebirth, so it made sense for the early Christians to tag on their own ersatz birth-celebration to one that was already around. |
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http://www.brenna.co.uk/xmas.html
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| | Christmas, CARM |
| | Century, they adopted the holiday and tried to convert it a Christian celebration of the Lord's birth. | | | In the Roman Empire, by the time of Christ the winter festival was known as saturnalia. | | | One of the symbols of the life found in the celebration of saturnalia, was the use of evergreens. |
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http://www.carm.org/questions/christmas.htm
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| | VILLA IVLILLA > Saturnalia |
| | By Cicero's time it had grown to seven days, then the Emperor Augustus cut it back to three days. | | | Uses the setting of the Saturnalia for a Stoic philosophical dialogue between a slave and his master, in which the slave criticises his master for being enslaved to his passions. | | | But by the middle of the first century, celebrations started creeping up again: Saturnalia was celebrated from December 17-20 by the middle of the first century, and by the end of the first century celebrations continued to December 23. |
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http://www.villaivlilla.com/saturnalia.htm
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| | Saturnalia |
| | It is set in an ancient world full of magic and wonder. | | | Saturnalia is a game based upon your imagination and the written word. | | | You join the game as a single character in a game world developed over the last 15 years. |
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http://www.pbm.ndo.co.uk/gamepages/saturnalia.html
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| | Free Saturnalia Ecards, Saturnalia Greeting Cards, Saturnalia Greetings, Cards, ecards, egreetings |
| | So in honor of the Roman god Saturn celebrate the beginning of the festive season. | | | Free Saturnalia Ecards, Saturnalia Greeting Cards, Saturnalia Greetings, Cards, ecards, egreetings | | | Let your buddy know how much you enjoy his/ her company. |
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http://cards.123greetings.com/cgi-bin/newcards/showthumbs.pl?q1=edec_saturnalia&log=cckerala
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| | Saturnalia/Paul Fleischman/Historical fiction |
| | The title and the word “Saturnalia” describes a Puritan tradition upon which day the servants and the masters traded places for the day. | | | This book narrates William’s struggle between enjoying his new life as an educated apprentice, and striving to remember his past as an Indian. | | | This book doesn’t have a very deep plot, but it is good for giving students a more personal, close-up look at the daily lives of the Puritans. |
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http://www.writinglife.org/discussion/_disc3/0000005f.htm
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| | Saturnalia |
| | But they're more inclined toward willful obscurity these days than when they started in 1996. | | | "Saturnalia has come into its own," attests LaMaster. | | | It also documents the way LaMaster willed his band into existence, hunting hard for the right players to fit his concept and luring them to the fold. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/99/05/20/SATURNALIA.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Spqr V: Saturnalia: Books |
| | Saturnalia is not as strong as the earlier SPQR books, but the theatrics are quite dramatic (the predictions about Decius, the fight at the end) and the humor is wry and cynical. | | | She has also been spotted cavorting with witches during the wild Saturnalia celebrations, which are rumored to include a human sacrifice. | | | SATURNALIA, is a wicked tale of murder and adultery, set against the twilight of Rome's Republic. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312320183
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| | Saturnalia |
| | In his temple in Rome, the feet of Saturn were bound in chains all year long, as a symbol of his defeat. | | | It is now the month of December, when the greatest part of the city is in a bustle. | | | The chains were removed during Saturnalia, the celebration of the return of the Golden Age |
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http://www.uuottawa.com/saturnaliamain.htm
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| | Latin Project: Saturnalia |
| | A menu for a Saturnalia Feast with traditional meal courses including drinks (10). | | | They study how Saturnalia was celebrated, in order to have their own celebration. | | | Students need to find, list, and /or make the following items: |
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http://www.burke.k12.nc.us/fhs/teacherpage/koerner/latin/projects/saturnalia
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| | DinoData Dinosaurs Saturnalia tupiniquim S185 |
| | Etymology: Saturnalia (Latin equivalent of carnival, in reference to the feasting period when the paratypes were found); tupiniquim, Portuguese word of indigenous - Guarani - origin, an endearing way of referring to native things from Brazil. | | | Holotype is a well preserved, semi-articulated skeleton, including most of the presacral vertebral series, both sides of the pectoral girdle, right humerus, partial right ulna, both sides of the pelvic girdle with the sacral series, left femur and most the right hand limb. | | | The record of Saturnalia, a 1.5-m-lomg gracile plant-eating animal, indicates that, like other major dinosaur lineages, the first representatives of the mainly heavy-built sauropodomorphs were gracile animals. |
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http://www.dinodata.net/Dd/Namelist/Tabs/S185.htm
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| | Saturnalia Books |
| | saturnalia books was established in 2001 to publish small (under 100 pages) well-designed soft-cover books by both interesting new voices and established writers seeking to express themselves in unique ways that mainstream publishers may not be amenable to. | | | Visit us at the 2006 AWP Book Fair | | | Winner of the 2004 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize Judged by Jane Miller |
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http://www.saturnaliabooks.com
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| | Saturnalia PBM |
| | South Erythria -- though be warned this is now a game based on the Thomas Covenant novels and has severed all links with the original Saturnalia after I refused the let the GM run a paedophile in my area... | | | For a more Saturnaliary Saturnalia experience you could contact Simon Peck who runs the North East of Erythria (see link below)or Ash Casey who runs the Serpent Isles (see link). | | | This is an on-line resource for the area of Saturnalia I run, namely North West Erythria. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/5676/sat.html
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| | Saturnalia Word Search |
| | There are 20 terms related to the Saturnalia in this puzzle. | | | This challenge contains a word search puzzle of 20 terms. | | | traditional gift given to adults during the Saturnalia |
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http://lonestar.texas.net/~robison/game16.htm
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| | Saturnalia: Dating Stories |
| | As many members have done in previous posts, I plan on making this a kind of progess-report of sorts. | | | Saturnalia: Dating Stories Jernigan: Sounds kind of like an accute and incurable condition, doesn't it? |
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http://www.ojar.com/view_1395.htm
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| | Saturnalia Books: Poetry Contest |
| | A separate sheet containing author’s name, title of manuscript, and contact information (including email address, street address, and phone number) must be included. | | | Please include a check for $25 payable to Saturnalia Books. | | | Participants will receive a complimentary copy of the winning manuscript. |
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http://www.saturnaliabooks.com/html/poetry_contest.html
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| | Saturnalia... |
| | Senex Caecilius give me the idea of a Saturnalia quiz but we already proposed one in Springfest. | | | AncientWorlds > Rome > ARS ROMANA > Taberna - General Discussion > Questions and Suggestions > Saturnalia... | | | I was thinking that we could organise a writing contest, each contestant would choose a roman art object and write about it. |
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http://www.ancientworlds.net/439143
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| | Circle Sanctuary - Winter Solstice |
| | Paper Hats -- soft hats (pilei) worn at Saturnalia banquets to signify informality. | | | with Julian calendar, Saturnalia on December 17 & 18; Opalia on December 19 & 20. | | | Dancing in the New Solar Year -- music and dancing. |
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http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/SaturnaliaInfo.html
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