The year commenced on the 22d of June, with the winter solstice, and there were four great festivals at the occurrence of the solstices and equinoxes.
The Yncas knew the difference between the solar and lunar year, they had introduced intercalary days to reconcile that difference, and they observed the periods of the solstices and equinoxes.
Their year was divided into twelve months, and great periodical festivals celebrated the periods of the solstices and equinoxes.
The Yncas ascertained the time of the solstices by means of eight towers on the east, and eight towers on the west of the city, put four and four, two small between two large ones.
The solstices and equinoxes were celebrated by four great festivals; but the most solemn was the feast of Raymi, held at the period of their summer solstice.
The solstices were also celebrated as the chief points in the sun's annual course.
These dates coincide with none of the four great hinges on which the solar year revolves, to wit, the solstices and the equinoxes.
The phases of the moon were apparent before men observed the solstices and equinoxes, and they formed an easy method of measuring time.
The Celtic year was not at first regulated by the solstices and equinoxes, but by some method connected with agriculture or with the seasons.
I direct particular attention to the fact that it was the new May moon which controlled the beginning of the religious calendar, although the Incas observed the equinoxes and solstices and the cult of the Sun was under their special care.
Feasts marked the annual crises, the solstices and equinoxes, 714-u.
Solstices represented by Jachin, Boaz, parallel lines, point in a circle, 506-u.
Christians have made the Solstices feast days of St. John, 595-m.
John, Solsticesappropriated to the Two Saints, 595-m.
And the solstices and equinoxes were noted, to determine the periods of their religious festivals.
The four principal had reference to the Sun, and commemorated the great periods of his annual progress, the solstices and equinoxes.
Strictly speaking, the equinoxes and solstices are each simply an instant of time.
The solstices mark his maximum declination north or south.
At the equator, where the day is always twelve hours long, there are two maxima of insolation at the equinoxes, when the sun is vertical at noon, and two minima at the solstices when the sun is farthest off the equator.
At the solstices the two poles receive the largest amounts of insolation which any part of the earth's surface ever receives.
So then in the time of the Argonautic Expedition, the Cardinal points of the Equinoxes and Solstices were in the middles of the Constellations of Aries, Cancer, Chelæ, and Capricorn.
They have attributed it to the knowledge of the solstices and equinoxes, but assuredly it is of more ancient date than this.
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