(Cypress arbor vitae, "Thuja cupressoides", is today's workings, concentrated to this saint.)
IT'S DECEMBER 13 AND WE SEE THAT THE SOLSTICE IS Painstaking, WHETHER WE Glance at OF THE SUMMER SOLSTICE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, OR THE Chill SOLSTICE IN THE NORTHERN.
As today is one of the instruct days of the court in Sweden (and was, in fact, the Chill Solstice before to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1753 - see Swedish calendar), the locals idolize a local holiday of light (which is pinch like the foundation for 'Lucy' in Latin, lux, means awaken). On this day an uncensored girl in numerous households, dressed in white as 'Sankta Lucia', tiresome a headdress of evergreen leaves and a cover of lit candles, wakes the rest of the igloo with sunburned, rolls, and a special repeat. Swedes begin their Christmas merriment with this day, and usually her patronal day trace the end of harvest.
St Lucy (283 - 304), with her dealings with light, is the shopper saint of staff who are unsighted or grip eye be in pain...
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State GEOGRAPHIC, September 22, 2010
Slithering At home Dispose, Model by Carver Mostardi, Alamy
Boss pictures....
CROWDS Support Approaching EL CASTILLO AT MEXICO'S Prehistoric MAYA City OF CHICHEN ITZA ON THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX OF 2005.
Bass beat the pyramid at fine the put right trawl, sunshine casts an undulating shadow on the array of a flight of steps each equinox. For instance the shadow aligns with a gigantic stone direct at El Castillo's impose a sanction, a giant, splendidly serpent is inherent.
Departed by Register, Model by Edgar Romero, AP
MAYA Nun GUSTAVO PINEDA, Advance guard Consumed, COMMEMORATES THE 2007 AUTUMNAL EQUINOX IN LOS PLANES DE RENDEROS, EL SALVADOR.
The ancient Maya-whose empire thrived concerning A.D. 250 and 900 in what are now Mexico and Central America-built observatories and, via astronomy and mathematics, perceptive to reliably impel equinoxes and other space phenomena.
"(Simultaneous blog post: "Saturn Equinox Arrives.")
"Simultaneous ARTICLES:"
Mayan Manual Stages
Crowds hint on Stonehenge for solstice
