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- From: joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
- Subject: Re: The Antiquity of "Christmas"
- Message-ID: <C05nz6.6AB@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- References: <1992Dec23.011417.9670@s1.gov> <Po5awB2w165w@freeside.com> <1992Dec28.184140.9006@radian.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:21:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.184140.9006@radian.uucp> markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr) writes:
- >In article <Po5awB2w165w@freeside.com> popec@freeside.com (PopeC) writes:
- >> I have even heard rumors of Solstice Cards
- >>being available here and there. This term is more accurate, anyway, of
- >
- >Here & there? Rumors? I send mine out every year; this year, it was even
- >printed on the front of the card, along with the design (ok, ok, so I
- >did the linoleum block myself; you could, too, if you wanted, or design
- >them on your machine, print them out & copy them; why put up with the
- >garbage on commercial cards?).
-
- Well, I shudder to think of Hallmark Solstice cards, but there are some
- very appropriate ones sold by groups such as the Sierra Club, and a lot
- of folk sell lovely Solstice and note cards. If you can't/won't do your
- own, support your fellow Pagans!
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- Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
- Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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- "When [the Druids] had found [mistletoe] they danced round the oak to
- the tune of 'Hey derry down, down, down derry!' which literally signi-
- fied 'In a circle move we round the oak.'"
- Mrs. M. Grieve, "A Modern Herbal," Dover, 1931, 1971.
-