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Evolution of Calendar Systems in History

Podcast: The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese · Hosted by Greg Reese of the Reese Report

Opublikowano: 2026-10-15

Human evolution has been effected by calendars, and the calendars we use have changed throughout history. Classical writers like Aristotle, Apollonius of Rhodes, and others recorded traditions of a Greek tribe, the Arcadians, who claimed to have lived in the land “before the moon was in the sky.” This concept is sometimes called Proselenos, which translates to “those who were before the Moon.” If this was the case, timekeeping could have been tracked through the migration of animals, cycles of vegetation, and local weather patterns. Calendars dating back ten thousand years were attuned to the cycles of the moon...