Assertion: vernal equinox | /r/HasProperty | the beginning of the season
Facets:
value: in many early societies
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Particularly the vernal equinox, which marks the first day of spring and the end of winter, the beginning of the season in which daylight again outlasts darkness and life springs anew.
text: In many early societies, the Vernal Equinox was considered the start of the year, the birth of a new cycle of seasons, and a harbinger of life and growth.
text: "As Yahweh set His calendar to begin in the spring (Ex.12:1-2) the vernal equinox is regarded as the beginning of the year.