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The Mapuche people and explain this event: "... The arrival of winter in our hemisphere is June 21, coincides with the solstice winter point calendar in which the earth tilts farther from the sun. Is the shortest day of the year and the longest night. For the Mapuche, this natural phenomenon marks the end of the harvest period and the beginning of a new planting season. From a cyclical conception of time, the celebration's protagonist in the sun.
According to the Mapuche religion, the sun rises with the arrival of winter, young and adult returns in the spring, old during our summer and begins to die in the autumn when the trees lose their leaves, animals change their fur and other phenomena alter nature, including men ... "
The Mapuche people and explain this event: "... The arrival of winter in our hemisphere is June 21, coincides with the solstice winter point calendar in which the earth tilts farther from the sun. Is the shortest day of the year and the longest night. For the Mapuche, this natural phenomenon marks the end of the harvest period and the beginning of a new planting season. From a cyclical conception of time, the celebration's protagonist in the sun. 
According to the Mapuche religion, the sun rises with the arrival of winter, young and adult returns in the spring, old during our summer and begins to die in the autumn when the trees lose their leaves, animals change their fur and other phenomena alter nature, including men ... "
