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Where the feathered serpent descends at equinox

A demonstration by artificial light of how a plumed serpent can be seen along the edge of the staircase leading up to the top of the Chichen Itza El Castillo pyramid. The same effect can be seen on th
A demonstration by artificial light of how a plumed serpent can be seen along the edge of the staircase leading up to the top of the Chichen Itza El Castillo pyramid. The same effect can be seen on… © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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