The precession is an approx. 26,000 year cycle, that ceases to be about agriculture and starts to approach the cyclical theme of the Indian yugas, Greek ages, or mayan aeons. And if that isn’t metaphysical for a bunch of apes I don’t know what is! Lol
What is the physical, materialist explanation for these cycles that, according to modern scientific thought, should not really affect/matter to/be noticed by prehistoric man?
You say it’s like gravity, but gravity has tangible effects on these people, they throw a spear up and it comes down, but the precession of the equinoxes I just don’t get how they would have first noticed, MUCH LESS determined it was something worth tracking.
Autumn brings with it a new average temperature, a new day length, the death or atleast temporary hibernation of most trees plants and animals...
I can understand the yugas/precession of the equinoxes/whatever absurdly long cycle you want to talk about symbolically being similar to the seasons or the day or whatever micro-cycle you want to compare it to, BUT I don’t get how they could physically matter/effect humans (in a materialist world view, if they represented “spiritual” seasons or ages, that makes sense, but last I checked you didn’t think we lived in a non-material or spiritual world? I could be misinterpreting your words lol, I’ve done that before.
The precession is an approx. 26,000 year cycle, that ceases to be about agriculture and starts to approach the cyclical theme of the Indian yugas, Greek ages, or mayan aeons. And if that isn’t metaphysical for a bunch of apes I don’t know what is! Lol
What is the physical, materialist explanation for these cycles that, according to modern scientific thought, should not really affect/matter to/be noticed by prehistoric man?
You say it’s like gravity, but gravity has tangible effects on these people, they throw a spear up and it comes down, but the precession of the equinoxes I just don’t get how they would have first noticed, MUCH LESS determined it was something worth tracking.
Autumn brings with it a new average temperature, a new day length, the death or atleast temporary hibernation of most trees plants and animals...
I can understand the yugas/precession of the equinoxes/whatever absurdly long cycle you want to talk about symbolically being similar to the seasons or the day or whatever micro-cycle you want to compare it to, BUT I don’t get how they could physically matter/effect humans (in a materialist world view, if they represented “spiritual” seasons or ages, that makes sense, but last I checked you didn’t think we lived in a non-material or spiritual world? I could be misinterpreting your words lol, I’ve done that before.