Day Four marks the beginning of the segment called Night, and in night the mood shifts from thanks to rememberance and commemoration of the dead. The Fourth Day is in honor of Helios and Dionysos (Apollo too if you choose to include elements of the Dionysian lordship of Delphi during the Winter) and this day includes an offering, which you can make as you see fit, to the Lord of the Underworld. A friend of mine suggested, if you live in warm climes, a luau with a pig roasted underground, that would be awesome.
I should note that the day of the Solstice itself, the fifth day of the festival, is a silent one. No offerings, no lit candles, no prayers, just a day for man to be as if dead to the Gods.
To Helios and Dionysos
Your light grows dim
The days ever shorter
And soon you will go down into the underworld
The Earth shakes
Maidens twitch nervously
And soon, o mad god, you will come
Down below
Your light is smothered
Man faces the shortest day of all
Revelry is yours
You who have come
You who rule over the Winter at Delphi
We await you
You who will rise anew
You who will be resplendent and envigoured
Come, dark Dionysos
Come and lead the procession
Toward the flowering of Springtime
Come, bright Helios
Come and light the way
The way toward the coming Springtime
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