The sun rises and sets at different points on the horizon throughout the year, causing the days to become longer or shorter. This process slows in midsummer and midwinter, and for a few short days the sun appears to rise and set at the same points on the horizon, leading most people in antiquity to believe that the laws of nature were suspended. for a short period of time. It was generally believed that during this brief window humans and the supernatural could interact with each other