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 Rain flower grew, his heart had a concern which he had never felt before.

When he fully recuperated, Night Eagle joined other warriors in the preparation of the spring equinox ceremony. The great pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, twice a year, held a ritual that had to do with the symbolic energy descent from the Sun to Earth. This energy is symbolized by "Feathered Serpent".

Twice a year, when the sun began its descent, the sunlight is projected on the main balustrade, forming seven isosceles triangles, which suggest a snake body of approximately 20 human bodies in length, which is connected to the snake heads at the base of the pyramid. The undulating and downward effect of the snake, coming down from heaven through the pyramid, takes very little time, but is cause for great celebration.

That day the hundreds of male and female warriors, who were receiving instruction on the "Feathered Serpent" grounds, searching for Total freedom, danced with all their strength around the pyramid at the tune of a large group of musicians.

Their bodies vibrated while convening mother earth with their ground throbbing. A prodigious flow of energy came from the ground and as a fire whirlwind; an energy snake rose into the atmosphere and linked men with the immeasurable. At the equinoxes, when daytime is equal to nighttime energy is more balanced. Humans become a bridge, the channel between our dear mother and our father the Sun. The human being is where heaven and earth "kiss".

For this reason, the human being embodies this dual symbol; the Quetzal, the sacred bird seeking the bright heights of higher consciousness, and the serpent, which represents the telluric forces that bind human being in the fields of dark matter and