winter solstice

Exploration Stage: The Hotel
From: Icy
Description: How about an article on winter holidays? Make sure you write it down! The ancient Germanic peoples celebrated Yule, the rebirth of the sun, as a winter holiday. The symbol of the holiday is the Yule log. I prepared it yesterday, so it should be around here somewhere.
Completed: Thanks for finding the yule log! The ancient Germans used to decorate their yule logs and then burn them. The smoldering emanating from it symbolized the "death" of the winter solstice and the rebirth of the sun. In this day and age, people sometimes make delicious cakes in the shape of yule logs and give them as gifts.