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that the sun’s north and south motion seems to momentarily stop. In ancient times, people devised ritual dances to influence the sun’s course at the summer and winter solstices hoping to persuade the sun to resume its movements and dramatizing through their dances what the sun should do.
In some South American countries a dancer, representing the sun, would move up a steep flight of stairs (indicating the sun’s ascent from north to south) to dance upon a small platform (which signified the sun’s “motionlessness” during the solstices), and then would move or be
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