You can say that easily, with your knowledge and understanding of natural laws.
Imagine being a primitive human, one who barely understands his own existence, let alone why a moving fire in the sky makes day or sometimes the sky gets angry and shouts and weeps. Ancient peoples had to explain these things somehow, without science or the capacity to understand intricate, unseen connections between phenomena. So it all became magic and gods and things to be appeased or entreated to with celebration and ceremony.
In winter, the darkness can last for longer than the light. Nothing grows. It's difficult to travel. Imagine not understanding why, and only knowing that for some reason, the day waits longer and longer to come, and you grow colder and more frightened. I imagine it must have been comforting, to think it was some godly man in charge of it, and that as long as you burned things and sang, he'd bring back the normal day.
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Date: 2015-12-11 04:42 pm (UTC)Imagine being a primitive human, one who barely understands his own existence, let alone why a moving fire in the sky makes day or sometimes the sky gets angry and shouts and weeps. Ancient peoples had to explain these things somehow, without science or the capacity to understand intricate, unseen connections between phenomena. So it all became magic and gods and things to be appeased or entreated to with celebration and ceremony.
In winter, the darkness can last for longer than the light. Nothing grows. It's difficult to travel. Imagine not understanding why, and only knowing that for some reason, the day waits longer and longer to come, and you grow colder and more frightened. I imagine it must have been comforting, to think it was some godly man in charge of it, and that as long as you burned things and sang, he'd bring back the normal day.