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> The 7 day week is completely artificial. Actually it's 1/4 of a month, which is defined by the moon.
by ars 1mo ago
> The 7 day week is completely artificial.
Actually it's 1/4 of a month, which is defined by the moon.
- unselect5917 1mo ago>1/4 of a month Where does the 4 come from? Human artifice.
- ndsipa_pomu 1mo ago4 Earth Quadrants simultaneously rotate inside 4 Time Cube Quarters to create 4 - 24 hour days within one Earth rotation.
- unselect5917 1mo ago>4 Earth Quadrants Another arbitrary invention. Why not divide by 3? Or 5? Or any other magic number?
- ndsipa_pomu 1mo agoJust as the clock face has 4 quarter corners, an Earth hemisphere has 4 quadrant corners. Those 4 different corners equate to 4 different Worlds, with each having its own separate day, own separate year and a separate human race.
- skylurk 1mo agoMoon phases as time keeping are as old as any of the others (ie prehistoric) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase Does not line up perfectly with days, so different cultures handled that differently, but pretty much all cultures had something like a week.