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If i lived here I would have to stay inside most of the time because going outside would cause my heart to explode and i think i speak on behlaf of most people too
Winters and Speirs on Utah Beach. This was the first time the two veterans had seen each other since 1945.
The Oak King and The Holly King
To our Pagan ancestors, the Winter Solstice was an entire night, the darkest one of the year, which was followed by a day that dawned just a little earlier. Today, we can know the exact time of the Winter Solstice, that precise moment when the days stop growing shorter and begin to lengthen; a moment decreed by Nature, not by men.
The Winter Solstice is the time when the waxing Sun overcomes the waning Sun and this is symbolized by the struggle between the Oak King and the Holly King. Myth tells us that these two brothers are locked in an eternal struggle for power. At Yule, the Holly King, king of the waning year, is killed by the Oak King, king of the waxing year.
The Oak King then reigns supreme until Midsummer, when the two battle again, this time with the Holly King as the victor. The Holly King is the death aspect of the God and the Oak King is the aspect of rebirth, the Divine Child.
The symbols still in use at Christmas today reflect this myth. Vestiges of the Holly King’s image can be seen in our modern Santa Claus. He wears red, dons a sprig of holly in his hat and drives a team of eight (total number of solar Sabbats) reindeer, an animal sacred to the Celts. Holly decorations represent the power of the Holly King at his height, while mistletoe, which was always most sacred when found growing on oak trees, symbolizes the rebirth of the Oak King and his coming return to power. The “ivy” of “The Holly and the Ivy” is the Goddess who gives birth to the Oak King and sustains him in his infancy.
The Oak King and the Holly King are mortal enemies at Yule and Midsummer, but they are two sides of a whole and neither could exist without the other. The significance of Yule lies in the eternal cycle of death and rebirth-even during the longest night of the year, we can anticipate the return of the Sun in its glory. The God of Summer and the God of Winter are twins, aspects of the same power, as are life and death. At Yule we celebrate both the power of the Holly King-the spirit of death-and the birth of the Oak King-the spirit of life. It is one of the Crone’s riddles: the height of power contains the seeds of destruction and the darkest night is the birthday of the Sun.
A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum uses some of the seismic data collected during the war to recreate the moment the Armistice, which ended the Great War, came into effect.
‘Sound Ranging’ was used to try and gauge the direction and distance of enemy artillery fire. This piece of recording tape came from the American sector near the River Moselle. Using six microphones it captured the last moments of the war as the artillery slowly ceased fire at 11am on November 11th, 1918
A sound production company, Coda to Coda, were commissioned to recreate the sound captured by the ranging tape. You can listen and download it here.
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