This particular Day of Christmas, Snow Day, seemed to come as a surprise to Google. To honest, it surprised me also. I was sure I read a story about it in 4th grade, no not the kind of snow day that cancels, school, work, travel, and other things we are used to, like electricity.
As best I can remember it was about a group of Farmers who were praying for snow. Why were they praying for snow? Because snow melts slowly into the ground and makes it easier to plow and plant. It also carries traces of minerals and nutrients, not all of them good, but are necessary for good crops.
Pagan Calender
The tenth day of Christmas (Jan 3) is Snow Day. On this day we pay our respects to snow. No depiction of Christmas and Midwinter celebration is complete without it. Snow has so many qualities and so many aspects that it is not surprising that the Inuit people have literally hundreds of words that describe its variety of colors and texture.
So today let us devote ourselves to the contemplation and honoring of the million small crystals that drift across the lands of the Northern hemisphere at this time of the year. And, if we have no snow to look at and celebrate, let us at least remember it in all its fine whiteness, cancelling out the darkness of Midwinter and transforming even the grayest and bleakest of scenes into a place of magic
