Merry Yuletide to all, and to all a Happy New Year.

Yuletide includes all the holidays, since it means the twelve nights shown  
by the position of the sun at midday.

Paleoman must have been aware of the change in length of daylight,  
anyone's guess as to what they did about it.

This is assuming that the heliocentric hypothesis is correct, and that the  
orbit of the earth has not changed, which is disputed by some. See I.  
Velikovsky.

William


On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:28:43 -0500, Robert Kesterson <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 07:31:47 -0600, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>             ORIGIN & HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTMAS
>
> Christmas is just one of many holidays that fall in late December.  The  
> real origin of all of them is the winter solstice (or the summer  
> solstice, if you live in the southern hemisphere). The celebration has  
> been there long before Christmas came along.  I don't know if paleo man  
> celebrated it, but neolithic man certainly did.
>