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[pidge-poetry]

Foals at Longitude Festival, Dublin | 19th July 2013.

Photos by Alessio Michelini [x]

[thelastmixedtape]

Longitude 2023 line-up announced including Travis Scott, Calvin Harris & more

.@longitudefest 2023 line-up announced including @CalvinHarris @trvisXX + more #longitude2023

Longitude 2023 has confirmed the first wave of its line-up set to play the annual Dublin summer music festival. The acts announced as part of today’s announcement include Travis Scott, Calvin Harris, MK, Anne-Marie, Raye and more. See full list below. LONGITUDE 2023 LINE-UP Longitude 2023 will take place on July 1st & 2nd in Marlay Park, Dublin. For more information visit…

[obitv]

im just accepting the failure on this one tbqh. i do not have the mental energy to learn about fucking. waves or ehstevrr the fuvk

[frecht]

reading abt geography again adn i have to redesign my worldbuilding biome map for the 3rd time

[posts-written-by-murderbot]

Query? Secunit Attendance Y/N Event: Musical Theater Festival Timestamp 11:30:02 Latitude [REDACTED] Longitude [REDACTED] Pretty Please (⁠ ⁠⚈̥̥̥̥̥́⁠⌢⁠⚈̥̥̥̥̥̀⁠)

Sure, I'll be there.

(For future reference you never need to whip out a "Pretty Please" to get me to go to a musical theater festival. In fact pretty please don't.)

[catb-fics]

CATB Interviews 2015

Unbottled BBC 1 Documentary

Shure interview

B Sides on Air

T in the Park

NME: Favourite Festival Memories

NME: Writing Cocoon

Lotus Play Boston

AMBY (Alicia Atout) Round 2

AMBY (Alicia Atout) Round 3 (Bondy & Benji)

Zig Zag Live: Slow Burn

Zig Zag Live: On a Roll

Zig Zag Live: Proud to be Different

Zig Zag Live: Easy Rolling

Summer Block Party

Radio 1 Big Weekend Norwich

The Banter magazine

GRAMMY Pro

SXSW with Bruce Rave

SXSW - Van talks about his idols

96.5 The Buzz at SXSW

103.1 iHeart Austin at SXSW

Q104.3 with Kathleen acoustic

NME Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Billboard at Lollapalooza

93-XRT at Lollapalooza

Modern Rock 98.7 at Lollapalooza (Bondy & Benji)

British Airways: Meet the Band

British Airways: UK Festivals

British Airways: Behind the Scenes

MTV Soundchain Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

105.7 The Point

Radio 104.5

RXP 103 Soundstage with Kathleen & Cocoon acoustic

88 Seconds with CATB

106.5 The End at Weenie Roast

Interview for M3 (Gabriella de la Torre)

AP News - Go Mad on Tour

Interview with Bondy & Benji

Interview with Alice Dale

BBC Newsbeat with Bondy & Benji

Like a Version - Triple J (full audio)

Meeting Catfish the Bottleman - Triple J

XL102 Big Field Day

MusicNews.com

Ibiza Rocks

CD102.5 - Bob

JBTV Podcast

JBTV Podcast interview without music (found by @icouldntfindquiet) 🥰

Longitude interview found by @howlove-hasbeen 🥰 (original link below)

Longitude RTE Tubridy interview

Radio 1 Star Caller

CATB INTERVIEWS MASTERLIST

[jartita-me-teneis]

17 hechos que tal vez no sepas sobre Portugal:

1. La región del Algarve en Portugal cuenta con algunas de las playas más impresionantes de Europa, atrayendo a millones de turistas cada año. Sin embargo, más allá de sus playas, la región también ofrece pintorescos pueblos pesqueros, acantilados dramáticos y un rico patrimonio cultural.

2. La Universidad de Coimbra, establecida en 1290, es una de las universidades más antiguas en funcionamiento continuo del mundo. Su Biblioteca Joanina, construida en el siglo XVIII, es famosa por su exquisito estilo barroco y alberga miles de libros antiguos.

3. El portugués es el idioma oficial no sólo de Portugal, sino también de Brasil, Mozambique, Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau y Santo Tomé y Príncipe, por lo que es uno de los idiomas más hablados a nivel mundial.

4. Oporto, la segunda ciudad más grande de Portugal, es famosa por su producción de vino de Oporto. El vino se produce exclusivamente en el Valle del Duero y se envejece en bodegas a lo largo del río Duero antes de ser enviado desde Oporto.

5. Portugal es el mayor productor y exportador de corcho del mundo, con gran parte de su corcho cosechado de los robles de corcho que cubren el paisaje del país.

6. El puente Vasco da Gama en Lisboa es uno de los puentes más largos de Europa, que abarca el río Tajo con una longitud de más de 17 kilómetros (unos 11 millas). Lleva el nombre del famoso explorador portugués Vasco da Gama.

7. La Torre de Belém, Patrimonio de la Humanidad de la UNESCO ubicada en Lisboa, fue construida a principios del siglo XVI como una fortaleza para defender el puerto de la ciudad. Es un impresionante ejemplo de arquitectura manuelina, adornada con intrincados tallados y símbolos marítimos.

8. El archipiélago portugués de las Azores, ubicado en el Océano Atlántico Norte, se compone de nueve islas volcánicas. Es un paraíso para los amantes de la naturaleza, ofreciendo paisajes únicos, aguas termales y oportunidades para avistar ballenas.

9. Portugal es el hogar de una de las librerías más antiguas del mundo, Livraria Bertrand, que abrió sus puertas en 1732 en Lisboa. Tiene el récord Guinness mundial de la librería más antigua.

10. A los portugueses les encanta su marisco, y uno de sus platos tradicionales es "Bacalhau à Brás", una sabrosa combinación de bacalao salado, cebollas, patatas y huevos.

11. El país tiene una rica tradición de música de fado, que se caracteriza por sus melodías conmovedoras y melancólicas letras. A menudo se realiza en entornos íntimos conocidos como "casas de fado", particularmente en los barrios históricos de Lisboa.

12. La región del Alentejo en el sur de Portugal es conocida por sus vastos bosques de roble alcornoque, llanuras rodantes y ciudades medievales en la cima de colinas. Es un escape tranquilo del ajetreo y el bullicio de la vida en la ciudad, ofreciendo a los visitantes un vistazo a la cultura tradicional portuguesa.

13. Portugal tiene una larga historia de exploración marítima, con exploradores de renombre como Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magallanes y Bartolomeu Dias. Sus viajes jugaron un papel significativo en la forma de la historia mundial durante la era del descubrimiento.

14. La ciudad portuguesa de Óbidos es famosa por sus bien conservadas murallas medievales y sus pintorescas calles. También es conocido por su festival anual del chocolate, donde los visitantes pueden disfrutar de una variedad de golosinas de chocolate.

15. Portugal es uno de los países más soleados de Europa, con más de 3.000 horas de sol al año en promedio. Su clima suave, combinado con sus diversos paisajes, lo convierten en un destino ideal para actividades al aire libre todo el año.

16. Portugal tiene una rica tradición de baldosas de cerámica, conocidas como azulejos, que adornan edificios, iglesias y palacios en todo el país. Estas baldosas intrincadamente diseñadas a menudo representan escenas históricas, motivos religiosos y patrones geométricos.

17. Portugal es el hogar del punto más occidental de Europa, Cabo da Roca, cerca de Lisboa. No es sólo un lugar pintoresco, sino que también tiene significado histórico ya que marca el borde del continente europeo.

[traincarsandstars]

About Bailu (the solar term)

Bailu (White Dew) is the the 15th solar term on the Chinese solar calendar.

Bailu begins when the sun reaches the celestial longitude of 165° and ends when it hits 180°.

Bailu has three pentads—days within the the solar term that are named after biological and botanical phenomena that occur within that solar term. They are—

The wild geese come (鴻雁來)—referring to geese migration to the south. The dark birds return (玄鳥歸)— The dark birds return, dark birds being swallows. And Birds stock their hoards (群鳥養羞)— basically birds preparing for winter.

Bailu is celebrated in the lead up to Mid-Autumn Festival.

Back in the old days, gathering dew from plants was a prevalent tradition among Chinese people. According to The Compendium of Materia Medica (also know as Bencao Gangmu), a Chinese herbology volume written by Li Shizhen over 400 years ago, white dew can be used as a beverage, which has a cooling effect on the body. Li wrote that it can also heal minor illnesses. (link)

As summer heat recedes, tea trees enjoy more favorable environment around Bailu. Therefore, tea leaves picked during this period of time generate a uniquely rich and fragrant flavor that is preferred by many tea lovers. (link)

On Bailu people longans. It is believed that the fruit brings good luck to people's descendants, as well as calm the nerves and cure insomnia.

There's also water caltrops at this time. Water caltrops signify the hopes for good luck and a bumper harvest.

They also eat Silkies, a chicken who's skin and meat are black. The chicken has to be cooked together with 10 herbs named after bai (white), such as bai mu jin (white Rose mallow) and bai mao xia ku cao (white ajuga). (link)

Families make mijiu— rice wine— during Bailu.

Yu the Great (c. 2123-2025 BC) was a legendary ruler in ancient China who was famed for his introduction of flood control, his establishment of the Xia dynasty which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, as well as his moral character. Every year when it comes to White Dew, fishermen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces will hold a week-long ceremony to worship Yu the Great, hoping he can bring luck and wealth to them. (link)

The animals that are associate and represent Bailu are swallows.

[mitologiagriega]

La historia y mitología de los Juegos Olímpicos se remontan a la antigua Grecia, donde estas competiciones eran mucho más que un simple evento deportivo. Los Juegos Olímpicos antiguos combinaban actividades atléticas con festividades religiosas y culturales, siendo un símbolo de la unidad griega y la devoción a los dioses, especialmente a Zeus.

Origen y Fundación de los Juegos Olímpicos

Mitología

Existen varias leyendas sobre el origen de los Juegos Olímpicos, pero una de las más populares involucra a Heracles (Hércules en la mitología romana), el hijo de Zeus. Según esta versión, Heracles fundó los Juegos Olímpicos en honor a su padre Zeus después de completar uno de sus doce trabajos. Para celebrar su victoria, Heracles creó un estadio y estableció los juegos como una competición regular cada cuatro años.

Otra leyenda menciona a Pélope, un héroe que ganó una carrera de carros y se convirtió en rey de Pisa (una ciudad cercana a Olimpia). En agradecimiento a los dioses, Pélope instauró los juegos en su honor.

Historia

Históricamente, los primeros Juegos Olímpicos se celebraron en 776 a.C. en Olimpia, una ciudad en la región de Élide en el Peloponeso. Estos juegos se llevaban a cabo cada cuatro años y se convirtieron en una tradición fundamental de la cultura griega. El período de cuatro años entre los Juegos se conocía como una Olimpiada, y se utilizaba como una unidad de medida de tiempo en la cronología griega.

Celebración y Competencias

Festival Religioso

Los Juegos Olímpicos eran, en esencia, una festividad religiosa en honor a Zeus, el dios principal del panteón griego. Se celebraban en el santuario de Olimpia, donde se encontraba una de las estatuas más impresionantes de Zeus, realizada por el escultor Fidias. Esta estatua era considerada una de las Siete Maravillas del Mundo Antiguo.

Competencias Deportivas

Los Juegos Olímpicos incluían una variedad de competencias atléticas, algunas de las cuales han perdurado hasta los Juegos Olímpicos modernos. Las principales competiciones incluían:

Carreras a Pie: La más antigua y prestigiosa era la carrera de estadio, que cubría la distancia de un estadio (aproximadamente 192 metros). Otras carreras incluían el diaulos (una carrera de ida y vuelta) y el dolichos (una carrera de larga distancia).

Pentatlón: Una combinación de cinco eventos: salto de longitud, lanzamiento de disco, lanzamiento de jabalina, carrera de estadio y lucha libre.

Lucha Libre y Pankration: La lucha libre era una competencia de fuerza y técnica, mientras que el pankration era una combinación de boxeo y lucha, considerado uno de los eventos más duros.

Carreras de Carros: Estas competiciones se llevaban a cabo en el hipódromo y eran extremadamente populares y peligrosas.

Boxeo: Utilizaban tiras de cuero en las manos en lugar de guantes modernos.

Participación y Reglas

Atletas

Los participantes en los Juegos Olímpicos debían ser hombres griegos libres. Las mujeres no podían competir ni asistir a los juegos, con la excepción de las sacerdotisas. Los atletas entrenaban intensamente y competían desnudos, en parte como una celebración de la forma humana y en parte por razones prácticas.

Tregua Olímpica

Durante los Juegos Olímpicos, se establecía una tregua sagrada conocida como ékécheiria. Esta tregua garantizaba que los competidores y espectadores pudieran viajar con seguridad a Olimpia y regresar a sus hogares sin temor a conflictos armados. La tregua fomentaba la paz y la unidad entre las ciudades-estado griegas.

Declive y Renacimiento

Declive

Los Juegos Olímpicos continuaron siendo una tradición importante durante más de mil años. Sin embargo, con la conquista romana y la eventual adopción del cristianismo como religión oficial del Imperio Romano, los Juegos Olímpicos fueron prohibidos en el 393 d.C. por el emperador Teodosio I, quien los consideró un rito pagano incompatible con el cristianismo.

Renacimiento Moderno

Los Juegos Olímpicos fueron revividos en la era moderna gracias a los esfuerzos de Pierre de Coubertin, un educador y historiador francés. Inspirado por los antiguos juegos, Coubertin fundó el Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) y organizó los primeros Juegos Olímpicos modernos en Atenas en 1896. Estos juegos se han celebrado cada cuatro años desde entonces, convirtiéndose en un evento global que celebra la unidad, la paz y la excelencia deportiva.

Simbolismo y Legado

Llama Olímpica

Uno de los símbolos más reconocidos de los Juegos Olímpicos modernos es la llama olímpica, que se enciende en Olimpia y se transporta hasta la ciudad anfitriona a través de un relevo de antorchas. Este ritual simboliza la conexión entre los Juegos Olímpicos antiguos y modernos.

Anillos Olímpicos

Los anillos olímpicos, diseñados por Pierre de Coubertin, representan la unión de los cinco continentes y el espíritu de amistad y competencia global. Los colores de los anillos (azul, negro, rojo, amarillo y verde) junto con el fondo blanco de la bandera olímpica, fueron seleccionados porque cada nación del mundo tiene al menos uno de estos colores en su bandera nacional.

[pidge-poetry]

Foals at Longitude Festival, Dublin | 19th July 2013.

Photos by Alessio Michelini [x]

[thelastmixedtape]

Longitude 2023 Day To Day Line-up Announced

.@longitudefest 2023 Day To Day Line-up Announced #Longitude2023

The daily line-up breakdown for Longitude 2023 this summer has been announced alongside a limited number of extra Saturday tickets (going on sale this Wednesday). See line-up below, more acts to be announced. Longitude 2023 will take place at Marlay Park in Dublin from Saturday July 1st to Sunday July 2nd for more information visi Longitude.ie. LONGITUDE 2023 LINE-UP BREAKDOWN Saturday…

[rabbitcruiser]

National Tea Day 

Just because we dumped all that tea in the harbor, doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy the relaxing, warm drink. Visit a Fest-Tea-Val, or simply enjoy a steaming mug of tea.

That’s about the perfect sentiment we can think of for a nice cup of tea! Tea is a wonderful drink that comes in a wide variety of different flavors, each of them having a distinct personality and character. It has been used for everything from a simple morning libation to the central element of certain social and religious rituals.

This amazing drink is so important that taxing it was the final straw that ignited a fledgling country to declare a revolution! National Tea Day celebrates this fantastic beverage and the seemingly endless list of things it can do.

History of National Tea Day

The History of National Tea Day reaches far back into the world’s history but can be narrowed down to a place of origin that is surprisingly precise.

This place sits at the intersection of Latitude 29N and Longitude 98E, notable as the joining of NE India, Burma, China, and Tibet. Many mythological origins for tea also exist as well, some of them merely interesting and others quite gruesome.

In one period in China, the Emperor had ordered that all people of his nation would boil their water before drinking it. So it came to pass that the Emperor was sitting and drinking a simple cup of boiled water when leaves from a nearby tree blew into it, creating the first tea.

In another tale, a man sat meditating in front of a wall (for 9 whole years!) when he accidentally fell asleep. On waking, he was so disgusted with his inability to stay awake, which he considered to be a weakness, that he severed his eyelids and threw them to the ground where they sprouted into the first tea bushes. A little disturbing, perhaps, but utterly Asian in its style.

Regardless of its origins (which may be in dispute) the importance of tea cannot be understated. And anyone is strongly encouraged to research it since it would be impossible to cover it’s entire history here.

Now, it’s time to take a look at what tea is–and what it is not. Officially speaking tea is an infusion of the leaves of Camellia Sinensis, an unassuming evergreen plant that hails from Asia. Technically, what tea is not is anything that does not contain these leaves.

That means that, while infusions of herbs not containing these leaves may be referred to as ‘Herbal Teas’, they are not in fact teas at all. Only those infusions which contain the Camellia Sinensis leaves can properly be called tea. Considering tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, second only to water, it seems that a little accuracy is in order.

On the other hand, as words and traditions evolve, many things have become known as tea, which so many people around the world enjoy, that it doesn’t hurt to be a little generous with the definition. And generosity is what National Tea Day is all about. Drinking, and sharing, a generous cup of tea.

Because it spans a variety of sources and cultures, a couple of different dates have been recognized as National Tea Day. April 21 is National Tea Day in the UK. The UN has put National Tea Day a month later, and another National Tea Day falls in the middle of December. There are even days for Iced Tea, Bubble Tea and Chai. Not to mention a whole month for Earl Grey Tea and Iced Tea.

It seems that celebrating Tea is a festivity that should be happening all throughout the year! And since tea is the most consumed drink in the world (after water) no one is even going to complain.

How to Celebrate National Tea Day

Drink a Cup (or Glass or Mug) of Tea

Literally hundreds of varieties of tea are in existence, from those that are gently dried and cured to those that go through complex processes that can include long stays in caves. So many varieties of tea exist that it almost defies the imagination! National Tea Day is the perfect time to try a few new ones.

Grab a Glass of Iced Tea

In some countries, tea is only considered to be authentic if it is enjoyed hot. However, other cultures have taken the idea of tea and turned it into a cold beverage. For instance, in the United States, iced tea is a common beverage that is served in a large, tall glass. It is often sold by the gallon in stores and, in the south (but almost never in the north!), it is made very sweet.

Whatever the case, the first order of business for National Tea Day is sitting down to enjoy a sip in whatever form is preferred.

Attend the Fest-Tea-Val in UK

Celebrated all throughout the United Kingdom, Fest-Tea-Val (festival!) Tea rooms, hotels, cafes and pubs all around the nation host special events, promotions and activities that are centered around the country’s favorite drink: tea. These events are often paired with worthy charities in order to provide financial support for them.

Host a Fest-Tea-Val

Those outside of the UK certainly don’t need to be excluded from all of the fun! Consider hosting a National Tea Day celebration at home, at work, or in the community. Simply gather friends or coworkers together and put on a spread of different varieties of tea that can be tried. This would also be a great time to call that friend who has the eclectic collection of teapots!

Take the Sustainable Tea Challenge

Since most tea bags are made of plastic, which isn’t great for the earth, many people are moving in the direction of using loose leaf tea or at least compostable tea bags. Some companies try to promote sustainability and eco-friendliness in the production of their tea, including:

Numi. Fair-trade, organic, and offsetting carbon emissions.

Yogi. Organic, recyclable/compostable packaging and gives back.  

Pukka. Organic and donates profits to help the planet.

Source

[thorraborinn]

For a "neopagan" or whoever wants to follow the Nordic pantheon, which position is the "correct" one? Faithfully follow their traditions as testified by the sagas even though they contravene current customs and "calendars" or adapt it as best as possible to current times and our natural environment? Example: if the Nordics celebrated a propitiation at the end of the harvests at the end of autumn, should we do it following their autumn or ours according to latitude/longitude? I hope I was clear. Excuse my English, I use a translator

Me puedes preguntar en español a la próxima vez. No lo hablo bien pero lo leo un poco. Lamentablamente tengo que usar inglés para responder más.

I think that it would be difficult not to adapt your festival dates to local conditions. I don't think that you could insist that you're celebrating the coming of the cold and dark at vetrnætr when it is, in fact, transitioning into summer. If someone told me it were the "darkest night of the year" at 21:00 and there's still some sunlight, I think I'd have a hard time taking that person seriously.

The truth is that all of the heathen calendars that we know about from Scandinavia did adapt things for local conditions and customs, even if those differences were more minor. One of the reasons modern heathens argue so much about calendars is that they don't understand that there can be more than one heathen calendar, and they are trying to resolve differences that don't need to be resolved. For example, people fight over whether dísablót should be held in the beginning of winter or end of winter, because there are texts describing dísablót in Norway around vetrnætr, and dísaþing in Sweden when winter was almost over. There's really nothing confusing about this; there were different customs in different places (and dísaþing was not even the same type of celebration as dísablót anyway, but heathens see the word dís and cannot imagine they were independent celebrations). Yet, heathens argue over which is the "correct" date. (this also means that someone in the southern hemisphere could pick either one to model their own celebration)

Things become even more diverse when we talk about aspects of the calendar beyond the major celebrations (höfuðblót). Traditional names of the months and moons usually come from what work needs to be done or what is happening in the environment at that time of year, such as sáðtíð 'seed-time' in late April, heyannir 'hay-working' at midsummer, frermánuður 'freezing-month' in late November.

On the other hand, if someone in the southern hemisphere wanted to use the word jól to give a name to the celebration they have during the summer, and adapt the way they celebrate it to make sense with long days and hot weather (but maybe also with gift-giving, if you do that), I don't see anything wrong with that. There's nothing about the actual word jól itself that says it has to be when it's cold out. In fact, the timing of jól has already been moved as part of Scandinavian history (from January to December). Almost everyone in the northern hemisphere celebrates jól at about the same time as Christmas, for a long list of reasons, even though it was originally in January. So I couldn't blame anyone else for celebrating it at about the same time as Christmas, even when Christmas is in the summer.

There is one other change that I would make if I were in the southern hemisphere, personally. I use a lunisolar calendar with 12 or 13 months, that adjusts based on the winter solstice. The midwinter-moon is the first full moon cycle following the winter solstice. If that happens too early, then a thirteenth month is added in the middle of summer. If I were in the southern hemisphere, I would change this so that the calculation is based on the summer solstice, and I would add a month to the middle of winter. The reason is that then there would always be the same amount of months for both the northern and southern hemisphere; not sometimes 12 months in the north and 13 in the south, and the other way around. Where I live, this doesn't actually matter, because almost no heathens are using a lunisolar calendar around here, but I don't know the situation in the southern hemisphere.

So basically, I think that adjusting to local conditions makes the most sense, but since we live in a globally-interconnected world sometimes those local conditions involve being influenced by non-local conditions. I don't think that there is always one unambiguously correct way to handle this.

I hope this is helpful.

[corruptedforce]

I am still alive, I promise. I'm slowly working on things. Slowly.

I had FORTY homework assignments last week. online summer classes are a bitch and a half.

But, I'm trying to be more caught up and for those that followed me when I did this 4 summers ago, I'm going to be in Europe, essentially for 4-6 weeks. It's taken four freaking years to get back to my second home, well I tend to be all over when I'm there, but primarily Ireland and Spain, with a couple weeks in Mexico. I get to go back to the Galway Film Fleadh, which is one of my favorite film festivals. Plus, Longitude Music Festival is one of my favorites and I love Barcelona. But yeah, these are my favorite kind of working summers, that are basically no work, except for certain days. Mentally, I need to get out of this town.

But, I should still be around, and my sleep pattern will still suck.

[nikkilover-miraclenikki]

【 Miracle Nikki CN 】

🐰🧧🏮 Happy Chinese New Year 2023 🏮🧧🐰

🐰🏮Spring Festival 2023 • Lucky Bag 2023🏮🐰

【 Miracle Nikki CN 】

🐰🧧🏮 Happy Chinese New Year 2023 🏮🧧🐰

🐰🏮Spring Festival 2023 • Lucky Bag 2023🏮🐰

🐲🐉 Lucky Bag • Qián lóng lín yuān 🐉🐲

The world is not just the latitude and longitude of the chess game, and he is no longer a person who holds his own.

In the sea of ​​people, he only wants to listen to the sound of the tide in the depths of this sea of ​​people,

Use your own strength to calm the rising waves.

[notmuchtoconceal]

Capricorn (astrology)  

Capricorn (♑︎) (Greek: Αιγόκερως, romanized: Aigókerōs, Latin for "horned goat") is the tenth astrological sign in the zodiac out of twelve total zodiac signs, originating from the constellation of Capricornus, the goat.[2] It spans the 270–300th degree of the zodiac, corresponding to celestial longitude. Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this area from around December 22 to January 19.[2] In astrology, Capricorn is considered an earth sign along with Virgo and Taurus, a negative sign,[3][4] and one of the four cardinal signs. Capricorn is said to be ruled by the planet Saturn alongside Aquarius.

There appears to be a connection between traditional characterizations of Capricorn as a sea goat and the Sumerian god of wisdom and waters,[5] who also had the head and upper body of a goat and the lower body and tail of a fish.[6] Later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology, Enki was the god of intelligence (gestú, literally "ear"), creation, crafts; magic; water, seawater and lake water (a, aba, ab).[7]

Cultural significance

In India, the zodiac sign of Capricorn is celebrated as the Makara Sankranti festival,[8] also known in Nepal as Maghe Sankranti.[9] The Indian astronomical calendar is not based on the western Gregorian or Julian date keeping system. The Gregorian calendar has fixed days in a year and does not accommodate difference in the actual solar year. Therefore, the festival is celebrated on either of January 14 or 15 every year, when, as per the Indian astronomical calendar, the Sun actually enters the Capricorn sign.

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