It is the longest day. The sky is bright yellow and the fields are green, but also growing thorns in many places. The Yule tree is again pictured at the centre standing on the hill above the tomb. One the tree can be seen the image of the Divine Sun of Righteousness, but his face is covered in blood and his head bearing a laurel of thorns.

At Litha, according to the story,
the Sun God is wounded in defeating the Dark Lord. The sacred writings tell us that the divine child was also put to death by being nailed to a tree and received a wound to the side that signaled his death. We see in the picture the suffering which the sun of righteousness experienced. We can see why this history meets the description of Litha as a time of "blood and thorn", and that in the sacred writings it is a time of death.

Before the tree stands his mother (prominently) and a group of women weeping. Further away a group of soldiers stand. Another group of men can just been seen hiding in a forest in the background.

The sacred writings also tells us that in this sad event the men who followed him ran away to hide. The women, including his mother, stood by him when the soldiers, also men, put him to death. Sadly the role of these women has usually been forgotten, as has the initial cowardice of his male followers. It reminds us that the sun of righteousness is waiting to welcome all people, female and male.

In the trees the shadowy face of the dark figure can be seen.

The Dark Lord delights in death, and perhaps saw this the victory of darkness over light. But death can bring about change leading to new life, and, as we have seen, the sacred writings see this as the victory of light over darkness.