See the Milky Way there-it is the boundary between the two sets of correspondences. The sunrise on the North Pole happened on May 1st! Isn’t that a coincidence! There are a lot of variables in this, but what we are left with is the software simulating the spring equinox 3 ages ago apparently on May Day. One group of people had the idea they could rule the others by using their minds and betraying their hearts. Instead of one person betraying another, betrayal occurred on a civilization wide basis. They believe the GREAT YEAR switched correspondences when the Sun during the spring equinox went from Gemini to Taurus (and the decanates went from the Hare to Auriga). There are evidently people (in my hypothetical March Hare religion) that think there was a similar but greater and civilization-wide betrayal three zodiacal ages ago when the spring equinox crossed the Gemini/Taurus boundary. This betrayal occurred on the spring equinox the Great Year switched ITS correspondences. I believe May Day is a reference to the most famous of the “March hare/April fool” betrayals. The motifs in The Wicker Man are just like the earlier described spring equinox betrayal with emphasis on the March Hare and a cave but instead the event occurs on May Day. We could have secret pictures like the one below with a hare in the shadow and rarely tell anyone about our crafty and secret March Hare religion: We could celebrate Easter as the date that Ishtar was tricked down the “rabbit hole” of Auriga. He’s a wise trickster who tricks spirit into leaving on the spring equinox and takes over while she’s gone. Let’s go a little further and create a hypothetical religion of the March Hare. Ishtar would have been fooled into going on her journey by the hare. The hare decanate can then be called the “March Hare.” What if the March Hare tricked Ishtar into leaving for the summer? Ishtar would leave and the Hare could take over while she’s gone. Today, the month before this boundary between the 90th and 91st day is March and the month after is April. The winter was associated with the cold and the feminine. This way, spirit would leave the world during the hot summer and return for the cold winter. She returns six months after she left on the fall equinox. Three months later, at the summer solstice she would die and resurrect. Ishtar would at the spring equinox begin her underworld journey. The decanate on the other side is Auriga-Ishtar’s cave. The decanate on one side of the boundary is the hare, hence rabbits and rabbit holes for hiding Easter or “Ishtar” eggs. Easter at Lepus/Auriga would be Ishtar entering the cave on the spring equinox to go underground and visit her sister. The hare constellation Lepus however could also be a rabbit, so I’ll treat them as one and the same. Today rabbits are associated with Easter or “Ishtar.” A hare is not a rabbit. Auriga was also the cave that Ishtar entered. The constellation Auriga was interpreted by some as a cave-it is the cave that Odysseus enters when he encounters the Cyclops and the cave Siegfried enters to kill the dragon Fafnir. There is a bardic “Underground Journey of Ishtar” story. Each week was assigned a decanate constellation beginning with “the Raven” and ending with their equivalent of “Coma Berenices.” This would always put the spring equinox between the hare decanate week and the cave decanate week. When the solstice was detected (perhaps by measuring a shadow) they would start the new year. At the end of the year there would be a five day period when they would wait for the solstice. I believe the ancient bards were using a 360 day year. If the year began ON the winter solstice, the spring equinox would always be a quarter of a year later. Because we have not corrected the calendar for a while, the year now starts about 10 days after this astronomical event. It appears we at one time began our year on the winter solstice. Some old cultures began their year on the winter solstice, others on the spring equinox, still others started on lunar events.
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