Talk:Midsummer/Archive 1

An event mentioned in this article is a June 21 selected anniversary.

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Is this page necessary? I think other holidays have their traditional aspects and Neopagan aspects merged together in one page. - Montréalais

The traditional holiday celebration does have its origin in pagan roots, but this is not the same as saying that it is still part of a ritualistic cult celebration. I couldn't see how it was be possible to preserve the integrity and references of the existing entry and avoid giving this connotation to the traditional holiday. I think there are issues with neopagan connotation in other entries relating to traditional holidays. -- Mic

Actually, I think the point is that the neopagan holiday celebration has its origin in traditional roots. I would favour merging them and also Midsummer Day, which is the English tradition comparable to the Scandinavian ones mentioned on the "(holiday)" page. —Ashley Y 22:54, Nov 29, 2003 (UTC)

OK, I've merged them. The idea is that midsummer is simply a time of the year, and different people do different things with it. —Ashley Y 00:16, Dec 1, 2003 (UTC)

Midsummer Day, or St. John's Day, the Feast of John the Baptist, is celebrated on June 24. The summer solstice now falls about June 21. Is this because of the Precession of the equinoxes? If so, can an astronomer give us a date-span (rather long one, of course) when the summer solstice actually fell on June 24? Wouldn't that suggest when the origins of St. John's Day lie? Wetman 20:33, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I have carefully set links, identified by the conventional bullets, at the end of each section where they describe the festivities of that particular nation. I hope someone won't come along and budle them all together helter-skelter at the end of the entry with the general links. Wetman 17:11, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

"The statistics of the number of men drowned with their zipper open is morbidly recounted every year." That quote is a riot! --Darra 18:56, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Does the discussion about predicting the start of the festival by the shift in days between Midsummer and the Equinox need to take the switch to the Julian calendar into account? Dumbledad 10:08, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)