In late 2013, an announcement was made regarding the apparent Archaeoastronomy discovery of precise spring and fall Equinox sunrise alignments over the Aghurmi mound / Amun Oracle when viewed from Timasirayn temple in the Western Sahara desert, 12 km away across Lake Siwa.
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The Order of the Solar Temple, an international organization with a belief that suicide can lead to reincarnation in another dimension, emerged from obscurity with the mass deaths of 53 members in Switzerland and Canada in early October 1994, shortly after the fall equinox.
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This number will be fewer, but close to the number of days in the summer where the sun doesn't set ( for example the sunrise is usually a few days before the spring equinox and extends a few days past the fall equinox ).
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During the spring and fall equinoxes the shadow cast by the angle of the sun and edges of the nine steps of the pyramid combined with the northern stairway and the stone serpent head carvings create the illusion of a massive serpent descending the pyramid.
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A three-dimensional calendar of sorts, it has four stairways with 91 steps, the last being the top level _ equaling 365 days . Thousands come for the spring and fall equinox _ an image of a plumed serpent appears to slither up and down the steps.
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But https : / / twitter . com / ArielRebel / status / 514400738307743744 from 23 September 2014 says : " For everybody who asked . . . My real birthday is September 23, 1985 : ) I'm 29 for real today lol : ) I'm a fall equinox baby ^ _ ^ ".
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With help from professional astronomers, David R . Wagner of Thompson, Conn . _ a Quinebague Community College instructor, historian, and painter who has been researching the site in the Pachaug State Forest _ has determined that rocks in the arrangement indicate four landmark solar events : the summer and winter solstices and the spring and fall equinoxes.
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I know that the moon is only one size but is there certain times of the year ( eg . summer equinox to fall equinox ) when the redshift seems to make the moon appear more oblong or oval shape than other times of the year ? Preceding talk ) 04 : 33, 20 August 2008 ( UTC)