Ryan on Nostr: I should have worded my reply differently, I was only disagreeing with time being ...
I should have worded my reply differently, I was only disagreeing with time being stolen by only having 12 months instead of 13.
Everything around us is cyclical and honestly society can track any cycle it chooses to track time. We use the tropical year (vernal equinox to vernal equinox) currently which is 365.25 days coinciding with one full trip of the earth around the sun. The moon doesn't exactly fit into this cycle, however it does repeat in it's relative position to the sun every 19 years which led to the Greeks and romans tracking the lunisolar calendar. You can look up the Metonic Cycle for reference. This led to tracking 4 cycles to be a century (roman sæculum) which was roughly 80 years coinciding with a long human life split into 4 parts that the romans later rounded off to 100 years to fit their base 10 system (Strauss-Howe generational theory).
Regardless, I think it's not enough to only track the moon but realize the relationship between both sun and moon and how they work together.
Last note on tides, the moons gravitational pull causes the earth to wobble on it's axis (nutation). This motion is what causes the tidal flow that repeats in a... you guessed it... 19 year cycle.
Good luck on your crusade!
Everything around us is cyclical and honestly society can track any cycle it chooses to track time. We use the tropical year (vernal equinox to vernal equinox) currently which is 365.25 days coinciding with one full trip of the earth around the sun. The moon doesn't exactly fit into this cycle, however it does repeat in it's relative position to the sun every 19 years which led to the Greeks and romans tracking the lunisolar calendar. You can look up the Metonic Cycle for reference. This led to tracking 4 cycles to be a century (roman sæculum) which was roughly 80 years coinciding with a long human life split into 4 parts that the romans later rounded off to 100 years to fit their base 10 system (Strauss-Howe generational theory).
Regardless, I think it's not enough to only track the moon but realize the relationship between both sun and moon and how they work together.
Last note on tides, the moons gravitational pull causes the earth to wobble on it's axis (nutation). This motion is what causes the tidal flow that repeats in a... you guessed it... 19 year cycle.
Good luck on your crusade!