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EQUINOX
('Equal Night' - Day and Night Are Equal Length - Autumnal Equinox)

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WHAT IT IS AND WHEN

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When Equinox Is On The Ehoah Year Wheels

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Follow this link to learn more about the Ehoah Calendars

For the Gregorian calendar the date it falls on is
September 22 for Borealis (Northern Hemisphere)
March 20 for Australis (Southern Hemisphere)

What Equinox Celebrates

This is considered the year's dusk as it is when night and day are even going into longer nights. It is during this time of year that the harvest is in full swing with food in abundance. Before the ground freezes sand is sculpted into festive images, stones are artfully stacked as sculptures around the perimeter of the festival grounds, leaves and pine cones are laid out in various festive patterns, and additional leaves are artfully hung as mobiles, curtains or window dressings to decorate. Participants adorn themselves in leaf masks and crowns, and could go so far as to make cloaks, bracers, shin guards, and shoes from leaves as well. Squashes are hollowed out to serve the feast fare with the tops becoming plates, and apples are hollowed out to hold drinks. Competitions revolve around harvest and preservation skills (how did last year's harvest preserve to today?). Care is taken to harvest and store the seeds from this year's harvest, and plant what vegetation that requires over wintering, and excess seeds are used in a community seed exchange.

All to celebrate the earth and the abundance that it provides.

More activity information will be added over time

EQUINOX DECORATIONS

EQUINOX FESTIVAL

OPENING CEREMONY

AFTER OPENING CEREMONY

THE MAIN EVENTS

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Stone Sculpture Contest

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Each team of 3-5 members make their sculpture. Construction  begins after opening ceremony, at the end of the day the sculptures are judged. Each individual stone cannot exceed 1 stones weight (6.3 kg)(14 lb). The entire sculpture cannot exceed 1.5 meters high (4.9 ft), but can be as wide as 3 meters diameter (10 feet). Each construction area and team member is clearly marked so that the sculpture is not disturbed. Each perimeter stake having a flag with the team marking, and each member having an armband, headband, scarf, shirt or other visible item with the team marking. The biggest factor in the judging is the stability of the sculpture and if it will be fit enough to still be standing when Equinox comes round again.

Stones can be collected from the area and are constructed around the perimeter of festival grounds.

The resulting sculptures are left to stand all year long, leaving only the elements to take them down.

PERFORMANCES

GAMES & COMPETITIONS

CLOSING CEREMONY

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  • Home
    • Ehoah & Reformed Druids
    • Ehoah Symbolisms
    • Lingua Litarum / Visible Speech
    • Kalendars >
      • Gavia (Borealis Kalendar)
      • Sphenisci (Australis Kalendar)
      • Pandion (Globus Kalendar)
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Questionnaires
    • Bioregional Quiz
    • Impacts of Resource Connections
  • Celestial Events
  • Community
    • Community Resources >
      • Food >
        • ARTICLE: Why it’s impossible to actually be a vegetarian
      • Deplastifying Your Life
      • Education Concepts >
        • Various Education Concepts
        • Big History Project (Cosmic History)
      • Economy Concepts >
        • Various Economic Concepts
        • Social Entrepreneurship
    • Art & Drama >
      • Poetry
      • Saegoah Art
  • Customs
    • Ehoah Ceremony Outline & Misc. Customs
    • Meditation
    • Inoculative Libation
    • Lingua Litarum / Visible Speech
    • Rites of Passage >
      • Binding
      • Dispersal >
        • Eco Funeral Planning
        • Coffin & Shroud Options
        • Departing
        • Burial
    • Solterra Festivitas (Solar-Earth Festivities) >
      • Equilux
      • Translux
      • Lux
      • Transequinox
      • Equinox
      • Transnox
      • Nox
      • Transequilux
    • Saegoah Stepping Stones >
      • SCIENTIA (Awareness) >
        • 1st Stepping Stone
        • 2nd Stepping Stone
        • 3rd Stepping Stone
      • EVOLVO (Development) >
        • 4th Stepping Stone
      • OFFICIUM (Outreach)
    • Ehoan
  • Knowledge
    • Science >
      • Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
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      • Symphony of Science
      • The Scale of The Universe
    • Communicating >
      • History of The Written Word
      • Lingua Litarum / Visible Speech
      • Solterrestriale Vocabulum / Solar-Earth Terms
    • Body Knowledge >
      • What Nature Has To Say About Gender
      • The myth of the eight-hour sleep
      • The Common Cold
      • Your Microbiome >
        • MicroBacteria Hygiene
        • The Microbiome & The Brain
        • Drinks that help gut Microbiome
    • e2: Environmental Economies
    • Ask Nature
    • Appropedia
    • Permies
  • Blog: Canadian Mutt
  • A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment