The Equinox in Mexico attracts tourists
An equinox are two moments in the year, where the sun is positioned exactly above the equator. This leads by only two days to the length of day and night are the same. The first time is the spring equinox. In the western hemisphere occurs around March 21 and the autumnal equinox on 23 September.
Due to the adjustments of various durations dates to the years (which is due to the insertion of leap years), the exact time of the equinox varies each year. In 2008, will take place on Thursday, March 20 at 5:48 a.m. Greenwich time, 4:48 in Madrid, 2:48 pm in Tokyo and 2:48 a.m. in Buenos Aires. And on Wednesday, March 19 at 10:48 pm and 11:48 pm in Panama in Mexico City, in some cities.
By tradition, each equinox, the various archaeological zones of the country, become the focus of celebrations and ceremonies. At various sites in the pre-Hispanic cultures, are phenomena of light, just at the time it takes place the equinox. This is nothing but an evidence that our ancestors knew not only recorded but, astronomical phenomena. These events are so recognized, that NASA broadcast live, the phenomenon of Kukulcán pyramid at Chichen Itza.
In the March equinox occurs the following changes to our planet.
• In the North Pole, crossing a night of 6 months to a day of 6 months.
• In the northern hemisphere, passage of winter to spring; called vernal equinox.
• In the southern hemisphere, passage from summer to autumn; called autumnal equinox.
• At the South Pole, passage of a day of 6 months to a night of 6 months.
The vernal equinox, marking the beginning of planting, and therefore, the fertility of the earth, a celebration conducted by other cultures, as the Celts. At present, groups of diverse ethnic backgrounds come to perform ceremonies, which has attracted so-called generation “New Age”. They will “load energy.” Apparently this custom was born in the seventies, and is followed up today without that everyone attending, having clear, where and when the custom was born.
That if, it is well known that we must go dressed in white because the color favors energetización and carrying red cloth or paliacate, to balance it. So far it has not been able to find data that our ancestors perform any ceremony related to energy, but still Archaeological each area of the country is agglomerated by local or tourists, in this date. Or by the coincidence of the equinox and the date for several years, a lot of people come March 21, without knowing whether or not it equinox and little by little, the tradition has become popular verbena.
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