“Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures”
This is a rather thought provoking book…time is a constant in human thought.
Read 10/2009
Some Notes:
P 28 – Relationship between the period of the Moon and that of Woman
P – 31 “Faith in the Machine”
P 52 – Babylonian Creation Myth
P 59 – Marshack
P 64 – Stonehenge as a calendar
P 68 – The Sumerian token system
P 115 – The celestial conjunction of 17-18 February 3100 BC
P 121 – Plato: Time begins when ideal finds form
P 135 – The universe is as it is since it would not exist any other way…the physical constants say this….
P 177 – The Maya 260 day cycle
P 241 – “An underlying motive in creating and developing any cosmology is to produce a solid ideological foundation upon which to place society’s history”.