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In Photos: Winter Solstice Celebrations Around the World
On 12/20/20 at 11:00 AM EST
In a year that has seemed far too dark, on December 21, winter solstice, we will be that much closer to saying goodbye to 4 p.m. sunsets and welcoming back the sun. Every year around this time, the first day of winter is celebrated by bidding adieu to shorter, colder days and inching closer to spring.
What is the winter solstice? It occurs every year when the Earth is tilted the furthest away from the sun leading to the year s shortest day and longest night. It also indicates the first official day of winter. The phenomenon happens twice a year in each hemisphere and while for some it might just be the beginning of the end of much-too-early sunsets, for some cultures it signifies much more.
bidder, the bidder, bidding by phone. wining item after item, after item t the owner of the auction house expressed annoyance. they want to cultivate a collector class. the auction house said leave some for the others. meanwhile, members of the hopi tribe were watching the auction on line, heartbroken after losing their battle in court. the best hope was that the items would not sell. that would at least leave them some other opportunity some day to try to get them back. the bidder on the phone kept buying up item after item after item always being the highest bidder. cultural director for the hopi told the new york times when he turned out his lights at 2:00 a.m., he felt he was saying good-bye to the spirits embodied in the headdresses. when he turned on his lights the next day, the news was very different. because it turns out the anonymous bidder who was gobbling up the pieces at the auction who had successfully bid on 21 of 24 artifacts on the block turns out to be a u.s.
based philanthropic group, the annenberg organization, working with the hopi and u.s. embassy. a secret spy operation. they secretly purchased almost every single one of the sacred items as many as they could win at auction for the sole purpose of returning the objects to the hopi people. never had any intention of keeping them. but they thought it had to be secret. if any body got wind they were in high demand and one organization was trying to buy the whole collection that would have driven up the prices. so they kept their plan under wraps. they did not tell the tribe. they pulled it off. the foundation had never done anything like it. the foundation succeeded in rescuing 21 of 249 sacred objects. they spent more than $500,000 of the foundation s money to do it. of the three that they did not get, turns out that one of the three was bought by somebody else who had planned to give it back to the tribe. so, yes, the hopi tribe did lose two of the 24 of these religious
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