Friday 3 November 2017

Fiat Lux

Tonight, there are light shows around the centre of Lancaster, including in the Castle and the Priory Church, a kind of secular Diwali. We have posted about Diwali in the Angrezi Raj and in Leicester so I thought that it was appropriate to mention this civic semi-equivalent in Lancaster.

More generally, we share each other's celebrations, like Chinese New Year (see Kinds Of Dragons and China) and the end of Ramadan (see Barfi And Samosas).

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I also thought of the sky illumination of the Imperial banner which we see in Chapter 1 of ENSIGN FLANDRY at the Coral Palace. The flag of the Empire seems to have been a stylized sunburst on a royal blue field. Which was reproduced as a sky illumination as part of the celebrations of Emperor Georgios' birthday.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
Very good.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Anytime! Quite often, I've seen mention of the sunburst as an Imperial symbol.

Sean