In 2023, the winter solstice takes place on Friday 22 December. The solstice is a cause for celebration in some places and cultures, as BBC Bitesize found out. Soyal is the winter solstice ...

The winter solstice in Japan ... which are ancestral spirits representing the natural world. During the Soyal solstice ceremony, which is led by a tribal chief, the sun is welcomed back to ...

Publications of the Field Columbian Museum. Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 1, The Oraibi Soyal Ceremony. The Stanley McCormick Hopi Expedition (March, 1901), pp. 2-3, 5-7, 9-59 (132 pages) ...