The meaning of light ... the passage into Maeshowe chambered tomb, on Mainland, Orkney Islands. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

It is time to pray for the return of the sun. In this deep midwinter, we can start to imagine what the winter solstice meant to the ancient inhabitants of Britain who built Stonehenge and Maeshowe, and who aligned these mysterious buildings to receive the remote rays of the sun on the darkest day of the year.

This is the holiest time of the year

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