The festivities for the Head of the Year -- The New YearToday, many of those researching ancient traditions know there was a festival in Rome dedicated to the winter solstice, called Deus Sol invictus,100 which was celebrated around December 25th, resembled Christmas, but today almost no one really knows what it means anymore. The New Year and that before Christ, on December 31st, there was a great festival with a dinner to celebrate and greet the new Head of the Year or, if you prefer, to celebrate the New Year.
And even fewer people know who he was and, during that period, there was a week of meetings and political activity to elect him.
Then the celebration continued with another week of celebrations after his election, which was two weeks between elections and festivities.
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