{"id":4143,"date":"2014-09-23T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.italygreentravel.com\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2014-10-01T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:10:27","slug":"equinox-autumn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/equinox-autumn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is the equinox&#8217;s day: are we ready for this autumn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spellbound by the beautiful Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, Hades kidnapped her. The God of the Underworld then took pity on Demeter and she rescued her daughter but her victory over Hades was not complete: Hades allowed Persephone to go back on the condition that she returned in six months.<br \/>\nAccording to the ancient Romans,<em> the sad myth of Persephone living half of the year in the Underworld and half of it on Earth<\/em> explained the seasonal changes: the<strong> autumn equinox<\/strong> signalled the day Persephone was captured and taken to Hades and the beginning of her time in the Underworld. Demeter, goddess of agriculture, in her sorrow, stopped seeds from growing and bearing fruit. The spring equinox, in turn, marks the return of Persephone and is welcomed by the awakening of Nature.<br \/>\nThe myths helped the Romans and ancient peoples find a logical explanation to phenomena they could otherwise not explain: why do the days become shorter towards the end of September? Why do temperatures get chillier and all of nature seems to fall asleep?<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4143 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/i-colori-dellautunno-fotografia-di-hisako-tanaka-via-flickr\/'><img width=\"270\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/I-colori-dellautunno-fotografia-di-Hisako-Tanaka-via-Flickr-270x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Autumn colours\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4139\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4139'>\n\t\t\t\tAutumn colours by Hisako Tanaka via Flickr\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/i-colori-dellautunno-fotografia-di-epicnom-via-flickr\/'><img width=\"270\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/I-colori-dellautunno-fotografia-di-Epicnom-via-Flickr-270x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4136\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4136'>\n\t\t\t\tAutunn flower via Flickr\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/i-colori-dellautunno-fotografia-di-nick-kenrick-via-flickr\/'><img width=\"270\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/I-colori-dellautunno-fotografia-di-Nick-Kenrick-via-Flickr-270x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Autumn colours\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4135\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4135'>\n\t\t\t\tAutumn colours by Nick Kenrick via Flickr\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\nWe now know, and have known for a long time, that the equinox does not mark the day of Persephone\u2019s kidnapping; it is, rather, the<strong> \u201cequi noctis\u201d day<\/strong>, a Latin expression meaning the day when daylight and night time hours are equal is a little misleading, as we will soon see.<br \/>\nTo be precise, the equinox is the exact moment when the celestial equator and the ecliptic intersect.<br \/>\nThe Earth moves around its star, the Sun, over an elliptical rotation: the celestial equator.<br \/>\nImagine an elliptical figure meeting the line of a second different rotation: the Sun rotation. When the two itineraries meet, the Sun\u2019s rays hit the Earth perpendicularly.<br \/>\nYet the traditional story about day and night lasting the same amount of hours is not correct: although the sun\u2019s rays are perpendicular to the Earth, many other phenomena interfere with this event, such as light refraction. It\u2019s therefore quite unusual to go from daylight to darkness at a moment\u2019s notice: it usually takes a few minutes, or even hours before the transformation to darkness is complete. We call this event \u201csunset\u201d: it is neither daylight nor night time, it is something in between; a romantic limbo, a suspension of time.<br \/>\nAnd yet, the<strong> autumn <\/strong>and the spring<strong> equinox<\/strong> are the only two days during the solar year when the sun rises from the East and sinks below the horizon to the West. I know we have all grown up with the story of the sun rising from the Far East, from China and even further beyond. It is not completely wrong, just slightly incorrect: the sun does rise from the East, but only on the equinox days.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-4143 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/cachi-fotografia-di-joan-grifols-via-flickr\/'><img width=\"270\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/cachi-fotografia-di-Joan-Grifols-via-Flickr-270x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Khaki\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4133\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4133'>\n\t\t\t\tKhaki photography by Joan Grifols via Flickr\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/uva-nera-fotografia-di-d-wood-via-flickr\/'><img width=\"270\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/Uva-nera-fotografia-di-D.-Wood-via-Flickr-270x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Black grapes\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4134\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4134'>\n\t\t\t\tBlack grapes photography by D. Wood via Flickr\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/frutti-autunno-di-stephen-bowler-via-flickr\/'><img width=\"270\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/Frutti-autunno-di-Stephen-Bowler-via-Flickr-270x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Autumn fruit\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4137\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4137'>\n\t\t\t\tAutumn fruit by Stephen Bowler via Flickr\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\nIt is also true that the autumn equinox coincides with fewer daylight hours and, because of this, we are likely to feel more lethargic, wanting to spend more time in bed or lounging on the sofa.<br \/>\n<em>How can we resist the temptation to laze around for days on end?<\/em><br \/>\nAutumn itself helps us out with some of his gifts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>foliage colours<\/strong> are such a vivid pleasure, a walk through red and golden leaves on the ground can cheer the most melancholic soul up.<\/li>\n<li>And <strong>sweet grapes<\/strong>, sunny\u00a0khaki and roasted chestnuts bring happiness to kids and adults alike.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Aristotle once said,<strong> Nature <\/strong>does nothing uselessly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>You might like also:<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/foliage-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foliage, where to gaze upon the Miracle of Autumn in Italy<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/ideas-for-an-autumn-italian-weekend-in-the-company-of-bacchus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ideas for a perfect Autumn weekend in Italy<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/langhe-monferrato-roero-italian-unesco-site\/\" target=\"_blank\">Langhe, Monferrato and Roero: 5 reasons to visit the 50th Italian UNESCO site<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spellbound by the beautiful Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, Hades kidnapped her. 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