(ili - dan kad su Sunce i Zemlja, svetlo i tama, zenit i nadir, u ravnoteži, jednaki, dan kad predmeti i bića u podne na ekvatoru - nemaju senke...)

Equinox (ili ravnodnevica) je dan jednakog svetla (obdanice) i tame (noći), to je dvostruki prostorni svemirski datum, jednom u jesen, jednom u proleće, položaj Sunca i Zemlje stvara ravnotežu, jednakost, prividan balans ravnopravnosti jedne Zvezde i jedne Planete.

Equinox je na "našoj", severnoj hemisferi, danas 20.marta u 17:32 UTC, što znači 18:32 u našoj vremenskoj zoni. Datum na jednoj polovini planete označava dolazak proleća, a na drugoj - jeseni.

Istorija i "pamćenje" ravnodnevice je duga, prisutna u svim ljudskim kulturama i (manje - više) iste simbolike i sličnog razumevanja, bez obzira na međusobnu geografsku ili vremensku udaljenost tih kultura.

1.The March equinox marks the first day of various calendars including the Iranian calendar and the Bahá'í calendar.The Persian (Iranian) new year's festival of Nowruz is celebrated then. According to the ancient Persian mythology Jamshid, the mythological king of Persia, ascended to the throne on this day and each year this is commemorated with festivities for two weeks. These festivities recall the story of creation and the ancient cosmology of Iranian and Persian people. It is also a holiday for Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, India, Turkey, Zanzibar, Albania, and various countries of Central Asia, as well as among the Kurds. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday, it is also a holy day for adherents of the Bahá'í Faith and the Nizari Ismaili Muslims

2. Sham El Nessim was an ancient Egyptian holiday which can be traced back as far as 2700 B.C. It is still one of the public holidays in Egypt. Sometime during Egypt's Christian period (c. 200-639) the date moved to Easter Monday, but before then it coincided with the vernal equinox.

3.The JewishPassover usually falls on the first full moon after the Northern Hemisphere vernal equinox, although occasionally (7 times every 19 years) it will occur on the second full moon.

4. The Christian churchescalculateEaster as the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the March equinox. The official church definition for the equinox is March 21; however, as the Eastern Orthodox Churches use the older Julian calendar, while the Western Churches use the Gregorian calendar, both of which designate March 21 as the equinox, the actual date of Easter differs. The earliest possible Easter date in any year is therefore March 22 on each calendar. The latest possible Easter date in any year is April 25.

5. World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling, celebrated every year on the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, the first day of autumn equinox in the southern.

Meni je najlepše i najzanimljivije što je equinox odabran za "Svetski dan pripovedača", za ljude koji usmenom predajom i usmenim veštinama pripovedanja slave - naratorstvo, slave kulturu usmenih predaja, kulturu pripovedanja. Meni se čini da, ustvari, ništa drugo i ne radimo osim što "prenosimo priče i pripovetke" kroz prostore i vreme u kojima obitavamo.

Naša civilizacija (jednim svojim delom) kao da ponekad svojim tehnološkim i tehničkim udobnostima (namenjenim našim životima tako da (skoro) i ne zavise od prirode), zanemaruje značaj datuma kojim priroda "prirodno" započinje ili završava neke svoje krugove, spirale i lavirinte prikazujući nam razne svoje divote kao na pozornici kakvog teatra. Bez svih današnjih "tehničko-tehnoloških" dostignuća, ti su prizori verovatno nekada delovali moćnije, snažnije, magičnije...a ostali su ustvari sasvim isti, za svakoga ko hoće da ih primeti ili da pažljivo sasluša kakvog pripovedača o tome zašto i kako je, na primer, pleme Maya na Yukatanu napravilo piramidu po čijim se ivicama, o equinox-u, može videti "zmija od senki". I uvek i zauvek će ta zmija biti vidljiva, dokle god je piramide ili priče koja će o njoj sačuvati sećanje.

Proleće je.

Vreme za razna čuda života i neprekidne magične igre blještave svetlosti i kratkih senki, vreme za odlazak na vodu, na reke, vreme za radost što još jednom (i po ko zna koji put) sve ponovo tako bujno i veselo započinje svoje kruženje na ovoj našoj šašavoj vrtešci...

Vreme za pozornicu na kojoj se (opet) može slušati Shakespeare:

All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XLIII"

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XCVII"