nine-day festivities of the Winter Navratra always included the day that marked the Uttarayan, the beginning of the northward movement of the sun. This was the day the nurturer of the world, the sun, was farthest away from the northern hemisphere. It would now begin its six-month journey back to the north. Uttarayan was, in a sense, a harbinger of renewal. The death of the old. The birth of the new.
UTTARYAN IN NAVRATRA
