Monday, 2 January 2012

One of a Kind Designs in Jewellery Shops UK

By Adrian Jones


Searching For Solitaire Engagement Rings?

Looking for something different? Jewellery Shops UK are world renowned for delivering the perfect gift. These are places that permit you to take a breather from the hectic retail race and get some first class personalized service. So if you feel at the end of your tether through the Yuletide buying spree, dive into Jewellery Shops UK whatever your needs, from solitaire engagement rings to festive charms.

You may think the countdown to Christmas is just too long with retail stores playing Christmas music from October onwards when Yuletide trees and lights show up so early. But in days past in Orkney and throughout Northern Europe, Yuletide and its midwinter traditions lasted as long as a month. In the old days they started around December 20th and continued until January 13th - better-known now as the Old New Year.

Until two or three centuries ago, the festival in the pitch-dark days of the year had been generally known as Yule rather than Christmas. This was one of several great pagan gatherings celebrated by the Vikings who settled here in the 8th century. Other tribes from Northern Europe introduced very much the same events and customs to the UK mainland. It was a period to look forward to the return of lighter days and sit down with friends and family and others who lived nearby, all around the peat fires to share legends. These tales have ben carefully woven into a number of the Ola Gorie jewellery designs.

It absolutely was thought that the ghosts of the dead went back to their families in the gloomy midwinter. Dressing up the home with winter plants was a part of the custom to protect the house from supernatural beings. This custom and many more continued and became included in Christian traditions.

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The Celtic Yule corresponds with the Roman Saturnalia that was a festival focused on worshipping the sun. This procedure and Celtic celebrations were Christianised, so Yule became the time to rejoice in Christ's birth at Christmas. Rome wasn't built in a day so the festivals took centuries to transform from pagan to Christian significance.

What's prevalent right around the world is that fests originated from worshipping the sun and also age-old men and women knew when the solstices, or turning points in the sun's path, occured. Additional divisions were made between a solstice and equinox with the celebrations of Beltane (May 1st) and Samhuinn or Hallowmas (November 1st).

There once was great feasts, drinking and dancing to fiddle music. So some customs are still played out in the present day. Like searching out the most suitable treat in Jewellery Shops UK.




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