THE INVENTION OF TIME
Time was not a time in the beginning, time was only changes of the seasons. Time was endless flows of circulating now, moon and every morning rising by the sun. Time was practical a distance rode by horse. Five nights or two.
Seasons and they went. Moons rosed and vained as always. Only observers of the stars noted down the changes over time. Their charts an early counting. Putting signs events to stones in clay and hides. Erected stones to track the sun through evolving suns and suns.
It began as signs. Signs register of scores. In sticks and bones, Numerous stone age artifacts discovered with 29 scores indicating widespread observations of the heavily bodies, first prominence the moon. Man started to make events into signs.
The word “score” might be the oldest stone age word still in use. Score has two basic meanings; to count and to cut. To cut in sucsession to be able to count. First math in recorded history.
Jumping tens of thousends of years. The Egyptians had a hieroglyph for time and for other daily events such as hour, night and day..
To be continued..