The Nazca people believed migrating birds delivered exotic seeds from beyond the horizon in spring and carried souls to a heavenly paradise in the fall .
Each year the sun god Apollo was believed to travel north in a chariot drawn by swans to the mysterious island of Helixoia where he spent three winter Winter solstice mythology assigns sacredness to the concept of turning 180 degrees, as the sun halts its southward trajectory on the solstice and begins turning north.