the sun stands still – a 9-hour, 5-minute, and 11-second sonic immersion for the winter solstice

Solstice: Middle English: from Old French, from Latin solstitium, from sol ‘sun’ + stit- ‘stopped, stationary’ (from the verb sistere ). sistēre second-person singular future passive indicative of sistō sistō (present infinitive sistere, perfect active stitī, supine statum); third conjugation 1. (transitive) to cause to stand; to set; to place. synonyms Unknown. Perhaps from Celtic (compare Proto-Celtic *sistati, “put, stand”), or either from Latin sextus. numeral 6. the sun stands still. 6 months and 6 months again. sister stillnesses. a land of deepest shade upierced by human thought. after the darkest point, more light.