Equinox Ceremony at Plaza Mexico

Plaza Mexico and Encuentro Latino Art Gallery presents the Ceremony of the Equinox 2012 to be held June 9th from 12:00pm to 8:00pm at Plaza Mexico, 3100 East Imperial Hwy, Lynwood, CA, 90262.

The ceremony will consist of various Aztec rituals, dances, songs and actors performing in scenes rendering tribute to the Gods, under the rhythm of pre-Hispanic drums and the sounds of seashells. All this will take place around a scale reproduction of the Pyramid of the Sun of Teotihuac?n.

Temazcales with be settled around the pyramid, with actors performing as "curanderos" or healers offering healing with aromatic herbs to move away the negative energy and fill the public with optimism and vitality.

The clothing of

the dancers is amazing; most of them carry enormous crests or crowns with solar symbols adorned with multicolored feathers, and bracelets with seashells on their ankles and wrists.

This ritual is one of the main events in the old agricultural calendar from the Toltec culture and marks the start of the season of sowing the corn, grain that represents the living of the man, not only as physical but also spiritual food.

The main event with the ritual of the Equinox will be carried out from 3:00pm to 5:00pm, but the general program is from 12:00pm to 8:00pm with art workshops, "paper mache", and metal art, among others. Group X-Hanat Papantla dancers will perform at 1:00pm; and Group of Llajtamasis at 2:00pm with,"The Rain and Fire" dance.

We invite you to come with your family to Plaza Mexico to live this unique experience.

Mexico is culture and beautiful traditions, Plaza Mexico too.

About the Equinox

The ceremony of the equinox, which takes place in the majority of the pre-Hispanic pyramids of Mexico, gathers thousands of visitors from around the world, who congregate there at the arrival of the spring, dressed in white clothes and rise to the top of the pyramids in order to receive the energy that is believed that the pyramids receive from the universe.

With the equinox of spring the pre-Hispanic tribes initiated the sowing with the equinox from autumn the crop. In the pyramid of Chichen Itz?, in Yucatan, at the sunset of March 21st and September 22nd, days of the start of the equinoxes of spring and autumn respectively, a projection solar streamer is observed in the north stair of the Castle of Chichen Itz? ,that consists in seven triangles of light, invested, as a consequence of the shadow that project the nine platforms of that building, at sunset. The shadows connect with the head of the snake that is in the base of the pyramid. This snake represents Quetzalcoatl descending the pyramid in the direction to the sacred "Cenote". .

The equinox, gauge-astronomical phenomenon, is the moment in which the land is illuminated by the form equal sun in the northern hemisphere and in the south. This phenomenon exposes very well the cultural advance of the Maya, therefore its execution supposes the conjunction of astronomy, math, chronology, geometry and religion. .

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