We play with children, sports, games, artisanry, we paint and learn fine arts. We create dramatic plays for fireside at night. We busy ourselves with the harvest, getting ready for the dark time. We're frugal, we put aside canned goods and grains. We've been in the period of declining light for three months already, and now light and dark are equal.
Nights get longer, and longer, days shorter.
They represent the three strategies for the dark time. That uneasy truce between a dog and a cat. The word refers to the relationship between man and woman. At Autumn solstice, everyone's more motivated to pair up into the infallible 'buddy system' for safety. We propose that to someone and it's logical.