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Shunbun no Hi

3/21/2019

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March 20th/21st is “Shunbun No Hi” or spring equinox and it marks the beginning of spring! (It's the 20th in the US but 21st in Japan because of time difference.)

“春” (shun) is kanji for spring and “分” (bun) is kanji for “to divide”. In other words, "shunbun" describes the official divide of winter and spring. It's not celebrated as much here in LA because do we even have seasons? But it's nice to know that it's getting warmer and it's that time of year again where pretty flowers are blooming! ...Unless you have allergies of course.

So how is this holiday celebrated in Japan?

During the Meiji Era (1868-1912) it became a national holiday derived from Buddhist belief of a river (Sanzu no Kawa) that divides life from the afterlife or the world of enlightenment. It is believed that when night and day are equal length (during both spring and fall equinox), Buddha helps stray souls cross to the other side of the river.

Since it's a public holiday, everyone gets school and work off. (Lucky!!) It's traditional for families to reunite on this day and visit burial sites of their ancestors to clean gravestones, replant flowers, offer incense, and pray as a way to honor them. Ohagi and botamochi are often left to give nourishment to ancestors in their journey.

Ohagi and botamochi are yummy Japanese sweets that is made with sweet rice and azuki paste. Ohagi comes from the autumn flower "hagi" (bush clover) and botamochi comes from the spring flower "botan" (peony).

Hope you enjoyed the super moon last night! 

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Source: https://www.jmoreyins.com/2013/03/19/12_days_of_japanese_festivities_day_2_shunbun_no_hi/
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Raymond T Hall III link
3/24/2020 11:12:32 am

Private U.S. Army (retired special forces) – Code Name: “Tecumseh”

IF the sovereign nation of Japan is harboring a secret nuclear weapons program (in order to use it against the nations that corrected it after the last World War) than every single Japanese blood line (that never complied with the two orders found within Acts 2:38 of The New Testament of GOD within the Bible) will become extinct (“by whatever means which GOD ordained would deem necessary). IF this be true, Japan will only serve (as the rest of the human race marches on) to remind the rest of the human race as this memory:

“That human ‘neanderthal-like’ blood line that couldn’t survive for it’s own lack of humility” (IF and ONLY IF your humble behavior before the rest of the human race is simply hypocrisy). Make the correct choice (IF you need to make it) lest Japan becomes utterly forgotten: “drowned by the sands of TIME”. Who are “Native Americans”? Maybe to you we are simply “dust in the wind” (we are both ‘Joktan’ in the Bible my brother). It takes a ‘Joktan’ to know a ‘Joktan’. Godspeed.

https://www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/eerily-accurate-1968-prophecy-from-90-year-old-norwegian-woman

#behonorable (Genesis 10:25)

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