Commentary: The winter solstice has been a day of celebration in agrarian societies throughout human history. The favored décor for ancient winter solstices? Evergreen plants.
Scott Ball / San Antonio Report
Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of lights? Strapping a fir tree to the hood of my car and worrying about the strength of the twine, I sometimes wonder if I should just buy an artificial tree and do away with all the hassle. Then
scolds me — I have to remind myself that I’m taking part in one of the world’s oldest religious traditions. To give up the tree would be to give up a ritual that predates Christmas itself.Almost all agrarian societies independently venerated the Sun in their pantheon of gods at one time or another — there was the
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