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Every Epiphany in recent years I have read with pleasure the pages in John Crowley's Daemonomania that conclude with Pierce and Sam's garble of "We Three Kings of Orient Are," sung by them on the Winter Solstice 1979.
Someday I may explain why the Winter Solstice of 1979 was a life-changing turn in my own life. It goes on, or has gone on until this moment, which is all I can speak for.
Today is Russian Christmas, i believe, unrelated to yesterday's Epiphany; the Russian Church celebrates December 25 on the Julian calendar, which is now thirteen days out of sync with the Gregorian. This is not to be confused with Old Christmas, the practice in Appalachia and other places by which the Birth of Christ was celebrated on the same day as the feast of the Baptism of Christ, January 6. (Someone suggests, probably without warrant, that the shift to December 25 might reflect discomfort with the implications of the conflation of the two if the textual reading was in use that asserted that God the Father announced from heaven at the Baptism, "Thou art my beloved son; this day have I begotten thee." (Some said that there was only a clap of thunder, or so says the Gospel.)
Someday I may explain why the Winter Solstice of 1979 was a life-changing turn in my own life. It goes on, or has gone on until this moment, which is all I can speak for.
Today is Russian Christmas, i believe, unrelated to yesterday's Epiphany; the Russian Church celebrates December 25 on the Julian calendar, which is now thirteen days out of sync with the Gregorian. This is not to be confused with Old Christmas, the practice in Appalachia and other places by which the Birth of Christ was celebrated on the same day as the feast of the Baptism of Christ, January 6. (Someone suggests, probably without warrant, that the shift to December 25 might reflect discomfort with the implications of the conflation of the two if the textual reading was in use that asserted that God the Father announced from heaven at the Baptism, "Thou art my beloved son; this day have I begotten thee." (Some said that there was only a clap of thunder, or so says the Gospel.)
