Precession of the equinoxes

The earth passes through four seasons as it orbits the sun, along with increasing daylight length in the six months between the winter and summer solstice and decreasing daylight length between the summer solstice and the winter solstice. We also experience a 24-hour cycle that is the earth's daily rotation, and a 28-day cycle that is the moon's rotation around the earth. These are cycles that repeat indefinitely. However, many subtleties are hidden in and around these cycles, that most…

Gilgamesh is the ancient Sumerian epic, written some 4,000 years ago on cuneiform clay tablets and rediscovered only in the nineteenth century. It is a story that has echoes of the biblical Old Testament, with its graphic details of a great flood and the formation of mankind from the dust of the earth.

Jare Gody (Spring equinox) procession of the Marzanna, Poland

This amazing discovery would be incredible and historic enough just by virtue of the fact of its being located in Turkey and suggesting that Queen Nefertiti

The ‘Spiked Menagerie’ offers a spiked Sphynx cat, enigmatic and aloof, contemplating the procession of the equinox rather than more mundane affairs. Still, this hairless feline can be a convivial companion if induced to attend a catnip party.

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“Procession of the equinoxes.” The world: or, first lessons in astronomy and geology. 1848.

Kochab, second brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, after Polaris. It's a giant star with 42 times the radius of the Sun, and is 130 times as bright. As recently as 500 AD, Kochab and nearby star Pherkad served as the North Stars, but due to the wobbling of the Earth's axis (procession of the equinoxes), Polaris is our current North Star.