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The summers of my childhood was spent between Chualar, crushed chiles and especially capirotada. Like everything in house, it was both very Mexican and for a very different to what school and lived in the neighborhood. At all times I had to give explanations about why the Chualar not popcorn, crushed chilies are a type of gamble and capirotada had nothing to do with that bread soaked in the inns. It was also strange to others that we were all the Easter to the church but not the pass giving us real lashes or emotional.

In the Protestant world the church is a place of important socialization, such as Good Friday service after the seven words was a holiday meal to follow at dusk. Easter Sunday was just to have breakfast with tamales and play for hours. Thus, the family was in the middle of everything as usual. Obviously we were not the only difference. The neighborhood, the city and the entire country is made up of different, but the myth of homogeneous and pasteurized Mexican made it and thereby deny ourselves. But the most unusual Easter for my self-flagellation were not Catholic, but the bewildering change of date of holiday and capirotada.

The days of the Earth's rotation, the lunar months and years revolution Earth around the Sun were to blame for my discomfort. Although in apparent synchrony are far from each other multiples round and thus have a simple, beautiful and clear calendar system to the frustration of everyone. By contrast the duration of the year is as ugly with its 365 days, 5 hours, 48 \u200b\u200bminutes and 45, 9678 (...) seconds what to do with those 48 minutes? "Playing football halftime? The extra quarter day each year or talk. So you better not be watching them and ancient civilizations were left as not wanting to build the thing, ignoring the wise aliens helped them to build pyramids. So things Asterix times for the disorder was sufficient to Roman chief executive realized he did not live in the day it should. Julio Cesar then decided that the universe would be nice with years of 365 ¼ days, and every four years add a day. Cute, except that were amassed eleven minutes a year that the Renaissance did drop the early spring around March 11. The good news is that the holidays coming soon, but that did not matter to Gregory XIII workholic tired of holding the carnival, even in winter (tanga ride in Venice and snow must be horrible), made use of a resource misunderstood today: CONACYT summoned medium Vatican to help him, this primitive custom was that the scholars and scientists instead of playing to join the dots on farmville SNI or resolve the problems of the empire (a practice quite eccentric). In this way was that Christopher Clavius \u200b\u200band other Jesuit mathematicians invented a dreadful but practical solution. First flew 10 days remaining, Europeans Catholic slept an October 5 and woke up 15 October. Second, set the length of the year at 365 days 24.22% of the day (instead of 25% previously). Third, the surplus it gathered in a February 29 every 4 years, less the years that were new century. The exception to this rule is that every 400 years instead of the century itself will leap by 29 February, as it was in 2000. February 29 that repeats every 400 years. With all the ugliness that can be this calendar, only delayed one day every 2, 800 years.

What about Easter? Easter is a lunar date and has little to do with it.

That is a mess and moves so far. The moon has a cycle around the Earth of 29.53059 days, which means there is no way to fit between a fixed number of full moons in a solar year equivalent to about 354. 36709 days is the length of the lunar year. To fit the twelve half Moon in the twelve months were invented lunar months of 29 and 30 days, 354 days achieving accurate. Sure eleven days missing a fit to the solar calendar, so he devised lunar cycles of 19 years seven of whom have extra lunar month. So the Jewish holidays (lunar calendar) get delayed with the Gregorian calendar, until it falls a year and anticipate extra month. The Islamic lunar calendar the leap month is not going backwards, and always with respect to our calendar, like Ramadan. So Muslim children are laughing at Santa Claus always going forward. Easter is even more tangled because it mixes elements of lunar and solar. Falls on the Sunday following the first full moon (element lunar) after the spring equinox (solar component). But what the hell is Easter that has gotten us into so many obstacles?

Easter Bunny after reading this blog and not being able to calculate Easter, 2023, the year of the rabbit

The Jews are a strange people because Easter celebrates the Exodus from Egypt where they lived with water, food, weekly English and legal benefits to end around in the desert, no water, no soap and no vaginal lubricant. It's called freedom and worth more than gold from Pharaoh. Jesus himself when was pouring a glass of wine with his buddies in the Easter holidays, not to just tell pa that the Romans were going to get good punks, was also celebrating the freedom that so impaired at the time so looked so much like today.

why the emphasis in Jewish texts, Christians and in general throughout the West on the treatment of aliens. That all were strangers, we are all foreigners and migrants. This also becomes more gloomy news on Easter on the graves in Tamaulipas, full of migrants crossing the desert in search of freedom (by definition poverty, like wealth, are contrary to liberty). This also makes more sinister reading these Facebook days in the comment of a little kid from the "progressive left" calling evil shit born to another because it is not Mexican. When in fact we are a country of migrants, different and foreign. When in reality only exist on the other in which we recognize and differentiate. After all God, really did not do a very couple Universe, or the calendars or its inhabitants.