Video: Summer Solstice 2011. How the world meets the longest day
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Summer solstice - this, according to the ideas of our ancestors, is one of the most important holidays of the year, its very middle. In these few days, when the Sun "hovers" at the highest point of the sky, and does not decline or decline, all the peoples of the Earth greet the golden star - each in its own way. In our today's article, a selection of photos of the celebration of the solstice in different parts of the world.
Of course, summer solstice could not be ignored in one of the oldest observatories in the world - Stonehenge … On June 21, local residents and adherents of the ancient pagan faith gathered here. A druid in a white robe read a Celtic prayer near the stone miracle - but, unfortunately, due to cloudy weather, the English did not manage to fully enjoy the solstice.
Aymara people traditionally meet the summer solstice in warm capes and hats - because for them, residents of the southern hemisphere, this is the very middle of winter. This large Indian people inhabits Andes, and lives mainly around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.
June 18 summer solstice met in Washington parade. In the photo you can see the Flying Spaghetti Monster - this pseudo-divine creature, according to the idea of funny atheists from the United States, should embody all the absurdity of faith in God. The religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which emerged in 2005, is called "Pastafarianism" and once again proves that even atheists cannot live without faith at all.
Summer solstice in New York was well noted by local yogis for practicing meditation in Times Square. There were significantly more of them than at the previously described flash mob of yogis in Cardiff.
While the whole world is celebrating and beating drums, a couple of lovers from the city of Valparaiso in Chile, quietly kissing on the bridge. They don't care - that kissing promotes concentration, we could see from the example of hockey in Vancouver. Meanwhile, Kansas City, Missouri, is inexorably rising The sun, one for all the inhabitants of the planet - Christians, pagans, atheists and lovers.
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