The Chrestian mysteries are no exception. Jesus had been born at the winter solstice, the birthday of the Sun when it attains the southernmost, or right-hand, point of its course ; but his baptism and anointing were a ceremony of rebirth performed on the ninth day of the month Ab, the date of the...
Sapphire and the two brothers were returning from Court. She rode side-saddle and looked splendid: not in the least like one of those berry-faced women in long riding habits who used to ride side-saddle in the days of my childhood, but rather like ‘the lady upon a white horse in the Caldecott pic...