In his book Celebrations, Robert J. Myers agrees, stating that “many of the pagan rebirth rites, celebrated at the vernal equinox, became part of the feast.”

In time most of Christendom began to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the spring equinox and made this its most important religious celebration.

The Persians of that time gave eggs as gifts at the vernal equinox.”

But says Walsh’s Curiosities of Popular Customs: “This idea of the sun dancing on Easter Day may easily be traced back to heathen customs, when the spectators themselves danced at a festival in honor of the sun, after the vernal equinox.”

“Since the sun shines on the South Pole from the September equinox to the March equinox, the millennium dawns first on the bottom of the Earth,” states the report.

According to Canada’s Equinox magazine, Roger Broughton, a neurologist and sleep researcher, has concluded that “people are biologically wired for both a major sleep period and one nap a day, typically in midafternoon.”

Research shows that “after napping, people not only feel better but also do significantly better on tests of mental performance requiring concentration and complex decision making,” says Equinox.

The sun would appear in this constellation at the spring equinox (about March 21) and would remain there for about thirty days.

Over 2,000 years ago the sun was in the part of the sky called Aries at the spring equinox, and it is still called the first of Aries.

According to the magazine Equinox, Ptolemy’s drawings are “among the first recorded attempts at cosmography—the mapping of the shape of the known world.”

Sunrise services parallel rites “performed at the vernal equinox welcoming the sun and its great power to bring new life to all growing things.”​—Celebrations.

Equinox magazine calls the dog “a superb killing machine.”

The Canadian magazine Equinox reports that biopsies taken a year after surgery have shown human bone and blood vessels actually living within the pores of the coral, making the implants resistant to infection.

According to Canada’s Equinox magazine, psychologists advise parents to “encourage their children to read more, . . . discuss television programmes with their children,” and strive for a “balanced media diet.”

The idea is that a tiny electronic chip would act “like a telephone switchboard, rerouting brain signals past crushed or severed nerves,” reports Equinox magazine.

The Babylonian year started about the vernal equinox​—in the month of March.