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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by BurningFrog on Monday December 22, 2025 @11:06AM (#46355233)
Pre technology, the sky was very central to life. Sunlight, rain and snow dictated much of your life (and death), and you probably considered the sun, moon and five planets as gods.

You and I personally may not have kept track, but our local religious leader did, and maybe the even staged a ceremony at the winter solstice to ask the sun to make the days longer.

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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by mapcars on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:59PM (#46356661)
>and you probably considered the sun, moon and five planets as gods.

I find it strange that today knowing much more about sun and moon we don't consider them as gods. Today we know for sure they are the origin of all life on this planet and yet many cultures decided to go for an abstract intangeable entities instead of what is directly in front of us and can't be debated.

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