{"id":246,"date":"2014-12-21T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-12-21T20:33:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:33:39","slug":"wintersolstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wintersolstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Today the Sun Stands Still – Winter Solstice Birth of the Sun God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter Solstice, the Sun-God’s Birthday is today — at 6:03 p.m. Eastern Time to be precise.<\/p>\n

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The sun rises behind the Temple of Karnak during the alignment of the winter solstice sunrise to the temple in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor on December 20, 2014. The central sector of the site which takes up the largest amount of space, is dedicated to the Egyptian god Amun, who became prominent as the greatest of the gods. AFP PHOTO \/ RADWAN ABU-ELMAGDRADWAN ABU-ELMAGD\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a photograph of the Egyptian Temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt\u00a0where for 6000 years people have gathered on this day to watch the sun rise on Winter Solstice. Even though it’s a Muslim country, people still gathered there in southern Egypt this morning. It’s an awesome sight to see all the people standing there. Probably Moses attended this sunrise service once upon a time.<\/p>\n

The Reason for the Season, some people call today, the Winter Solstice, because it’s when the Light of the World returns, marked by several ancient religions, including the one we know most, Christianity. You may wish to check out our information on this Judeo-Christian-Pagan holiday and observances on our Esoteric Kristmas Holiday page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article<\/a> where I found the photo\u00a0explains the Winter Solstice perfectly, why the sun stands still on this day, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter Solstice, the Sun-God’s Birthday is today — at 6:03 p.m. Eastern Time to be precise. Here’s a photograph of the Egyptian Temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt\u00a0where for 6000 years people have gathered on this day to watch the sun rise on Winter Solstice. Even though it’s a Muslim country, people still gathered there … Continue reading Today the Sun Stands Still – Winter Solstice Birth of the Sun God<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[83,84,82],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holydays","tag-christmas","tag-sun-god","tag-winter-solstice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lOlB-3Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}