Talk:List of winter festivals

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Orthodox Christmas is not January 6th. In Russia they celebrate Christmas on January 7th but that is only because December 25th in the Julian Calendar, the calendar the Russians and some other Orthodox use for religious purposes, falls on January 7th. But Orthodox Christmas is the 25th of December on both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. If you use the Julian calendar however Christmas will fall on the 7th of January on the Gregorian calendar as I already said. The Orthodox Church does not have a seperate Christmas from the 25th of December.

Apart from the spelling mistake in the title, I think this is a hopelessly POV page. -- Tarquin 15:28, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I think this page might be better served by being called, for example, "Festivals that occur near the Winter Solstice" or something of the sort. Christmas itself would then be included. - Montréalais 17:55, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

So I moved it. Montréalais
What's it for? Some of those Christian holidays (circumcision) are not "winter festivals" per se, though they occur during the winter. Evertype 13:54, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)

Yule is not a celtic festival?

It's not a Celtic word, anyway. It's Germanic. Evertype 13:53, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)

[edit] Winter-Een-Mas

Does anyone actually celebrate this? If not, I suggest a "fictional" catagory, to which I can add Hogswatchnight 8-). Daibhid C 18:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Beaglemas

On 27 December 1831 Charles Darwin set forth in the HMS Beagle. This was an "On this day" article for 2006-12-27. I mentioned to a friend that it was yet another Winter festival... Googling does yield a few instances of Beaglemas greetings. Enough to list it here as a secular holiday? :-) -- Evertype·✆ 13:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

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