Many cultures have preferred to track time and the cycles of nature with the moon, rather than the sun. As we finish off this series celebrating the return of the sun, we’ll take a moment to sit with the other side of things.

Like many of these traditions we’ve covered, using the lunar calendar can be found from ancient cultures all across the globe. It seems that sense humans have existed, we have looked to the heavens for some sense of why or how. The earliest of us paid reverence to the patterns of the world and our place in the universe.

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I went down to meet Zarathustra and to hear him speak. I’ve heard tell of him before. I went to the stone in a cave where he has meditated, but there was no one there. I sat, defeated and weary. I’m not sure why I came. The people in the market square only laugh at the mention of his name. I wandered out of the cave and looked up at the sun.

I felt his words meander through the air. I began to see patterns and waves within them. They circled around me, fracturing and recombining. Letters splintered to create shapes and characters. I stood in awe, watching the world be created, destroyed, and reformed in front of me.