Talk:Sun Stones/@comment-60.240.68.239-20120613093440/@comment-4775325-20120613120655

The original pagan holidays had a nature/seasonal theme, the christian holidays replaced them with a religious theme and then the commercial holidays grabbed lots of little bits from here and there (and just making stuff up) and turned them into something aimed at making people want to spend money in shops buying presents/chocolates. However regardless of where the origins lie the commercial holiday (which is most definitely what they used in DragonVale) as it is currently seperated is not the same as Winter or the Solstice.

Of course the commercial holidays use the imagery of the seasons, why? because that's when the holiday is held. Santa Claus is dressed in winter gear not because he symbolizes winter but because he lives at the north pole and flies around late high in the air late at night during winter which is not a setting that a t-shirt a shorts would be very appropriate for. The reason he's still portrayed that way in the southern hemisphere is because he was imported from the north imagery and all (and it's hard to compete with all those xmas songs, books and movies using the winter setting).

Besides even if there is a link to the seasons that is not the same as a link to the Solstice, the Solstice is a very specific event which relates both to the season and to the sun. The Reindeer dragon has no relationship with the Winter Solstice.