The Rising Sun

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Which brings us once again to the concept of 'the new sun.' This is an old European idea: In ancient times the most intelligent folks reasoned that this was the time of year when the dying Sun suddenly became reborn, and they named this time, this season, the era of the rising sun.

Nowadays we know that The Sun begins to rise around the end of December. That is to say, we know that The Sun will present herself more and more as time goes by, and that She will finally peak at the end of Spring. We know that now.

This is not a religious idea.

I would love it if this glorious understanding were somehow connected to modern religion - But we also know that this new and glorious idea will never stand in the midst of current idiocy.