The equinox happens twice a year when the tilt of the earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the sun because the sun is vertically above a point on the equator.
During autumn and spring, the sunlight causes seven triangles to form a serpent-shaped shadow down a pyramid's main stairway which then meets a stone, snake-head carved at the bottom.
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