Solstitial

a solstitial point

In the Assyrian Standard [...] we see the figure of an Archer above that of a galloping Bull, and in another Assyrian Standard, that of Sargon II., we find not only the Archer and the Bull, the two constellations which 4,000 b.c. marked the equinoctial colure, but we may also clearly trace a reference to the two constellations which at the same date marked the solstitial colure, namely, those of the Lion and the Water-man.

[…] Fig. 2 is taken as being in the solstitial meridian plane N W S E, with the node D in front at the centre of the figure, and the node V behind the figure, D C V being the nodal diameter of the Earth, and W C E a solstitial diameter rectangular to D C V.

Gaillard had tried to show that the avenues had a solstitial orientation.

[…] the moment of his birth, the solstitial moon is to be full, […]

These two stages of the descriptive and the solstitial moon series were long ago passed through in southern Mexico and a need felt for a more precise time reckoning.

The same solstitial event occurs for the dry season, when Paritzika gains sight from the sun ray that filters through the nierika in the center of his tepari. The daily path of the sun is also charted inside the temple.

The elaborate and costly provision for witnessing the solstitial event alone confirms this. Something in addition was done here, on behalf of the immaterial fraction of personhood that can be imagined to survive the death of the body[…]