From:	Sebastian Wiers <seb@***.RIPCO.COM>
Subject:	Re: Spirit vanishing
Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 1995 14:50:16 -0500

> Does anyone know how the days exactly go there ? I think there is some
> time in between the "long summer day" and the "long winter day"
where
> they have change of day and night together with the rest of the world.
>
> Bye...
> Georg
>
By "there" Georg meant in the artic/antartic cicles, in reference to polar
nature spirits staying around longer than the typical 8-16 hours. Well, I do
know. The cirles themselves, at a certain latittude i don't remeber, are
defined as biend the place where, on the longest day of the year, the sun just
barely dips to the horizon, but does not set. The other days, it dips bellow
the horizon just a bit. During winter, of course, it is the opposite.
As you get closer to the poles, days like this take up a greater portion of
the year, but there are always some days where, technically, the sun sets,
unless you are right at the pole, and then all you would notice is the sun
getting slightly higer towards the middle of summer and then lower towards the
"equinox" and then disapeering all winter.
The entire sunrise/sunset thing seems kinda strange given that there are
hearth spirits in underground buildings and city spitits in the sewers who
would nevr even see the sun... We never really got touchy about it- if the
spirit is badly needed, it will stay around, presuming the shaman hasn't
pissed it of somehow.