Season’s Greetings
Christmas is a very visual festival, and many countries incorporate a variety of vegetation into their local response to the mid winter season. The results can be a delightful - although occasionally over-vibrant - mix of traditions, with Christianity firmly secured to the foundations laid on a variety of winter solstice celebrations. Aspects of the Roman Saturnalia may be particularly relevant to 2020. Everyone at home, schools and Courts of Law closed, the donning of brightly coloured special clothes (who knew that the original Christmas jumpers and onesies were called ‘synthesis’?), gifts and, something we all may have to resort to, sacrifices to the gods to ensure a better year ahead. Something from the New Year’s Honours list perhps?
Let Terroir take you on a tour of some of our favourite Christmas scenes.
