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Originally posted by Legion2024
Ok first post but here goes.
So have been reading this site for a while now i have noticed something interesting.
We have Mayan calendar ending 2012 threads.
We have Greenland with sunrise 2 days early threads.
My question is, If you knew the span of sunlight and moon light was going to vary 1000 years or 3000 years from now would you keep making the calendar or would you wait until it changes and settles and then recalculate it based on a period of observation?
Originally posted by Maxmars
Originally posted by Legion2024
Ok first post but here goes.
So have been reading this site for a while now i have noticed something interesting.
We have Mayan calendar ending 2012 threads.
We have Greenland with sunrise 2 days early threads.
My question is, If you knew the span of sunlight and moon light was going to vary 1000 years or 3000 years from now would you keep making the calendar or would you wait until it changes and settles and then recalculate it based on a period of observation?
It's a very valid point. However, they seemed to be able to compensate (mathematically) for a long period.
I have always thought that these ancient cultures spent a great deal of time and effort observing the constants of the universe they perceived around them. In many cases they invent allegorical myths and tales to protect the knowledge from becoming utterly lost in time (no pun intended.)
In the case of the changes we see now, it appears unbelievable that those things we are only now 'discovering' about the universe seemed to be relatively 'old news' to the ancients.
Chances are they knew something we either lost or refuse to accept.
The Cosmos is a dynamic and event-filled phenomenon, which form our perspective, seems impossibly complicated and impossible for any single human to comprehend in it's totality. But many older cultures refute that and insist that 'enlightenment' is a goal which humankind can aspire to.
I think, lacking new science, we have along way to go.