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What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!? The first astronomers and calendarians were women....
by ddalex 4y ago
What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!? The first astronomers and calendarians were women....
- LatteLazy 4y agoNot that you are necessarily wrong but... A hunter who wants to go out at night and needs to know when it will be light/dark. Ditto someone planning/expecting an attack on/by a neighbouring tribe. Or really anyone with some free time and interest (not uncommon)...
- INTPenis 4y agoTracking breeding cycles is more likely about sustainability. This might have been the precursor to cattle farming.
- ErikCorry 4y agoOnce you start counting time in lunar months it's an obvious move to divide the month in two halves, and then to do that again, and divide it into four. I wonder how old the concept of a week actually is.
- thechao 4y agoThe 7 day week is a fairly modern convention; I believe popularized by the Christianization of Europe. The classic Roman "week" is 8 days. The Mayans (and most of mesoamerica) used a pair of interlocking 13 & 20 day "weeks". The Chinese used a 9 or 10 day "week" (xún).
- irrational 4y agoGenesis has a seven day week and was written down 1000+ years before Christianity came into existence. But the Israelites probably got it from their Mesopotamian neighbors who had a 7 day week.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago> What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!? A hunter of any gender who wants to know approximately when the animals migrate or give birth, would benefit. Things that are easy enough for anyone to track and count: day/night cycles lunar cycles annual summer /winter cycles "four moons after the middle of winter" is therefor useful as it's possible to count, more easily so than "112 days after midwinter"
- thewrongthinker 4y ago[flagged]
- krisoft 4y agoExcellent. Can I take a ride in your time machine too? Does it only go in time or both time and space? How accurately you can aim with it? Joking aside, what pray tell is the source of this information? When you say "everywhere" and "always" how strongly you mean that?
- solumunus 4y agoIt's completely absurd to suggest that women have never hunted throughout the entirety of human history. > there were, in fact, no bad ass women huntresses standing up to the patriarchy and putting men in their place with their awesome skills. That doesn't need to be the case. Men of a patriarchy simply might decide to have female hunters, it might even be absolutely necessary under particular environmental pressures. To claim that not a single small tribal community has had female hunter(s) throughout history is frankly moronic.
- fooster 4y agoThere are numerous matriarchal societies throughout history… so basically no.
- washadjeffmad 4y ago> ideology That is, you mean, education?
- readthenotes1 4y ago-a man who wants to know if she's late -a man who wants to be out hunting bison when she's likely to be grouchy -a man who wants to be home from hunting when she's likely to be doubled over with cramps -a man who wants to know when the moon will light up the night -a man who wants to know when the night will be especially dark Probably someone with imagination might be able to come up with a longer list of why a man would want to know a 28-day cycle....
- tgv 4y ago> The first astronomers and calendarians were women You state it as if it were a fact.
- hbossy 4y agoSomeone who hunts at night. My grandpa could always tell which lunar phase will we are at, despite never having periods.
- Tor3 4y ago> What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!? [..] I'm a man and I actually track the moon cycles. I go skiing in the mountains during winter. If it's a full moon, or nearly so, I can plan on starting in the evening. With snow it's easy to ski in moonlight. If it's the wrong phase I can't plan on starting in the evening (typically Friday, for a weekend trip), I have to wait until the next day. There are other activities here which requires moonlight as well. It's important. Where it's snow, moonlight makes all the difference. I always kept track of the moon, especially when I was in my late teens and went somewhere hiking or skiing every weekend. I can easily imagine how super important moonlight would be for neolithic people, for all kind of activities, hunting and more.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoPrior to the invention of fabricated light sources, the lunar cycle would be of interest to any humans that liked being able to see and walk at night.