Meaning “birth,” Yalda is marked by family gatherings, candles (originally fires ... people of present-day northern Arizona celebrate the winter solstice as part of their religious tradition ...

Soyal is the winter solstice celebration of the native Hopi tribe ... Girls dress up in white robes and wear wreaths of candles on their heads to honour St Lucia (also known as St Lucy) who ...

The most dangerous of the solstice rituals has to be polo ... Taking place in Ohio, this celebration involves the lighting of candles on a 400-metre long, three-foot high prehistoric mound in ...