• erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    It’s Xmas that highjacked the winter solstice. New year used to be the start of spring (March) then the Romans decided to acknowledge the first 2 months, and then changed the start of the year to January so they could elect some officials to govern Spain instead of waiting an extra 2 months. It’s about as arbitrary as it can get.

    https://youtu.be/RrGHtl5qJfk About 24 minutes in to skip to ^