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minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down1·2 months agoTo be fair, the equinoxes and solstices are found in nature.
minus-squareSeleni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoBut also, to be technical about it, the holidays actually celebrating them are still a human invention.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoMeh, invention seems something a tad more in tentional. I think nature sort of gave us the solstices, we used them for some reason or another, but then they were too far apart and that’s when we invented holidays.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·2 months agoLunar new years? The harvest?
minus-squaredumples@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·2 months agoI would say something lunar based would be natural. The harvest would depend on the plant. You can really harvest something most of the year
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoIf you are in the northern hemisphere, the vast majority of plants go dormant almost all around the same time.
minus-squaredumples@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoWeird calendar to season mismatch.
minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoPerhaps not a holiday in the strictest sense, but definitely because of a natural occurrence
minus-squaredadarobot@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agowhat is the natural occurrence? the calendar is not part of nature. its basically a rounding error.
minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThe number of days do not align with a single revolution around the sun.
minus-squaredadarobot@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoyeah actually you are right. my bad.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoBut the calendar itself is artificial.
minus-squareCrazyslinkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoSolar or lunar eclipse?
minus-squaredumples@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoAre those holidays?
minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoAnd by extension, Yule and Christmas, Ēosturmōnaþ and Easter, Samhain and Hallowe’en.
To be fair, the equinoxes and solstices are found in nature.
But also, to be technical about it, the holidays actually celebrating them are still a human invention.
Meh, invention seems something a tad more in tentional. I think nature sort of gave us the solstices, we used them for some reason or another, but then they were too far apart and that’s when we invented holidays.
Really the only ones
Lunar new years?
The harvest?
I would say something lunar based would be natural.
The harvest would depend on the plant. You can really harvest something most of the year
If you are in the northern hemisphere, the vast majority of plants go dormant almost all around the same time.
Leap Day?
Weird calendar to season mismatch.
Perhaps not a holiday in the strictest sense, but definitely because of a natural occurrence
what is the natural occurrence? the calendar is not part of nature. its basically a rounding error.
The number of days do not align with a single revolution around the sun.
yeah actually you are right. my bad.
But the calendar itself is artificial.
Solar or lunar eclipse?
Are those holidays?
And by extension, Yule and Christmas, Ēosturmōnaþ and Easter, Samhain and Hallowe’en.
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