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The winter solstice is on the 21st of December, not the 25th. The dating of Christmas has nothing to do with it.

Christmas is the date it is because it is 9 months (human gestation period) after the Feast of the Annunciation (25th of March) which gets it’s date from an old attributed date of Jesus’ death.

In fact, the reason the UK tax date is in March is for the same reason - the new year was the Annunciation. Then 12 days difference due to the Julian/Gregorian shift.

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h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
After the equinox, the sun “dies” for 3 days, then starts returning (25th). I read it on the internet.

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- Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  21+3 is 24.
  
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  - KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    After the equinox so 22+3=25
    
    I dunno I just wanted to be included in the dumb argument
    
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    Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Wouldn’t make sense for it to hang after the equinox - wouldn’t it start hanging before with the equinox as it’s peak?
    
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