#Yule begins as the sun enters #Capricorn & the #WinterSolstice arrives on Sunday 21 Dec. The earth’s northern pole now tilts to its furthest point from the sun, giving us #theshortestdayoftheyear. Thereafter a slither of light will return each day. #FolkloreSunday #Christmas

"I climb quickly against the cold winter wind, eyes on the ground ahead of me to avoid stumbling. Not until I have reached the top of the hill and turned to face the south where the stars are brightest do I look upwards, greeting them all." C.R.Milne #WinterSolstice

Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree - Pericles [I, 1] #ShakespeareSunday #Christmas #Tolkien [‘Letters from Father Christmas’, J.R.R. Tolkien]

'O Earendel, brightest of angels, sent to mankind over middle-earth...' Today is the winter solstice, when the medieval church sang 'O Oriens', an ancient prayer for light. It inspired an Anglo-Saxon poem, which in turn inspired Tolkien's myth of Eärendil aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-an…

Hi all, a reminder that #FolkloreSunday is happening now with the theme of: MAGIC OF THE #WINTERSOLSTICE Bring your posts to the hashtag for a repost. See you soon! Maude xx #NationalRobinDay (Image: Lucy Grossmith)

The luminous wonder of mistletoe 🤍💚🤍 After Loki killed Balder with mistletoe, the tears of Frigg - his mother-goddess of love and beauty - became its berries. When the gods raised Balder back to life, she kissed them in gratitude - hence kissing under the mistletoe 💚🤍💚

… What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! - Hamlet [II, 2] #ShakespeareSunday #RobouteGuilliman #Warhammer40K

"I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch Earth with my feet." — Ptolemy, A.D. 150 📽: Aryeh Nirenberg

Hermes

The Acropolis of Athens covered in snow

The Pantheon, Rome

Second temple of Hera, also called Neptun temple or Poseidon temple, Paestum (Poseidonia), Campania, Italy. Photographer & Credit: Norbert Nagel

This scene showed how powerful Zeus was in the DCEU

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind Midsummer Night's Dream I. i. #ShakespeareSunday

Temple of Hercules Victor, Rome, Italy

Deep under Alexandria 2,000 years of history carved into the rock.

The Iliad: The Gods descending to Battle

The Pantheon, which is 1900 years old, features the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.

Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn. - Much Ado about Nothing [V, 3] #ShakespeareSunday #Mechanicus #Warhammer40K [Composer: Guillaume David]