Litha
Today at 12:16PM [CDT] is the Summer Solstice, technically considered the “first day of Summer”, but the mid Summer by much of Europe. [Unless you are in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case it is the Winter Solstice.]
Celts and many Wiccans celebrate the day as Litha, while computer programmers honor their predecessors, the druids, who build the first solid-state computing devices, the megaliths, like Stonehenge.
The Slavs celebrate St. John’s Night, Иван Купала [Ivan Kupala], the battle between the White god [Белобог – Belobog] and the Black god [Чёрнобог – Chyornobog] for control of the Sun. The Black god always wins and the night begins to expand.
The Finns use the same con by changing the name from Ukon Juhla to Johannes Kastaja [John the Baptist] to get the Christians off their case for holding the same celebration.
The sound track to the battle is Иванова Ночь на Лысой Горе [Night on Bald Mountain ] by Модест Петрович Мусоргский [Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky], which everyone should play very loudly.
Archæoastronomy tracks all of the important solar events, another of the many things I learned from Andante.
