Stars that tell you
Our forefathers saw a much much brighter sky. And probably even a different one. There could have been a star that died from then to now. Or stars rearranged. Or a new star was born thereafter. Or light from a star just reached us now. Well, that's not the point I want to make. Rather these stars tell us a lot. Tell us a lot of information. The new generation, like that of mine and younger, forgets to learn from the sky. They forget, or don't have time to observe the sky. Big miss, I would say. Our forefathers, the first observers, the first so-called discoverers, leant a lot from the sky. They observed that the sky changed every night. Actually, shifted in one direction every night and repeated itself, I mean repeated the same pattern of stars, exactly after 365 days. This discovery along with many other factors like where the moon is on that day, how long is the day compared to night, did flowers bloom etc would have led to the preparation of the first form of calendars. ...