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FourWinds
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Re: Old Mother Earth
Oct 25, 2002, 13:55
The moon controls biorhythms and some natural cycles - can't dispute that, but those are a secondary influence.

The main thing that influences our life is light and heat. The discovery of fire did lesson the impact of night time somewhat, but straying out at night with just a flaming torch for company would not have been a Neolithic person's idea of a good time.

The cycles of the moon do have a smaller counting unit - 29 and a bit instead of 365 and a bit, but Egyptians (and many other cultures including the Chinese, Greeks and Romans) had extra days at the end of the year to realign their Lunar calendar with the Solar one.

Use of a Lunar calendar was just for easier counting. Nothing else.
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