We don't hear much about these cosmological events nowadays but in olden times solstices and equinoxes were significant markers of different kinds of plannings throughout the year.
If you are into ancient architecture, you must know, most of them are somehow linked to some kind of celestial activity... pyaramids are aligned to true north. Stonehenge is aligned with solstices. Feels crazy to imagine how aware of the world they were. I go out and can't remember if I saw the moon last night. Getting dumber sitting behind the screen all day long.
Everything falls in the fall...the leaves, the temperatures, the mood...
I was so tempted to come and have a bite of this cake.
And here I was thinking I might be the only one who knew this fancy term! 😄 I know you’re super interested in these celestial and astronomical events. We still have to observe the sky through your binoculars!
It takes me by awe every single time I think about it or come across this information. We human beings are truly amazing. I mean, just look at what they were able to understand and accomplish... It’s incredible to think how deeply aware they were of the world around them and passed down.
We think we’re so advanced today, but sometimes I feel like they had a much deeper awareness of the world around them.
I suppose that depends on whom you're speaking of when you say 'they'.
'They' = every day people who had to work on the fields?
'They' = priests and astronomers and the like?
Astronomical occurrences were linked to myths and imaginations of gods, I think.
Thus, the change from days getting longer to days getting shorter was something powerful, I imagine.
And to find a point in they sky (near a particular star) around which all stars seem to be circling must have been a great discovery.
Yet - the common people were not involved in these things, as far as I know...
In this regard, we ARE.
;-)