My Name is Twilight Sparkle

[twilightpony]

Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and... This is so neat! A journal in an alternate universe! What fun! All I had to figure out was how to get "e-mail address" (e for Earth?) and find an Earth journal that works well with my magic. This Dream Width looks good and oh! Comments and replies! Maybe I can make some friends here! For science!

Dream Width. Is there an Earth version of Princess Luna running this? Somehow many of you speak Pony, at least in written form.

Selecting "Post Entry", now.

Comments

[schnee]

Pretty much that, yes. Originally it was a celebration of the longest night – or, more specifically, the fact that nights would be shorter again from then on, but don't let Luna hear that –; the current incarnation of the holiday dates back to an older culture that had a winter festival called "Saturnalia", though it's not recognizable in the modern version anymore. Later cultures added their own twists, came up with their own myths regarding the holiday's meaning, and so on, and the result is a veritable mishmash that really just boils down to "it's an excuse to get together and be merry".

[twilightpony]

Saturnalia. So your older culture had a nighttime holiday, named after a wandering star, in which people would wander around being merry? I think Luna would approve.

[schnee]

Indeed! It was a multi-day festival, named one of said culture's deities – which, incidentally, is who the planet Saturn is named after as well in our universe as well.