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In the video Lana is using Yule, the winter solstice holiday, as a foundation for analysis. Hence the sun reference. But you are right. She probably does take 'the solar year' idea a tad too far in what you describe.
Africa's Negro populations have the same relationship with the moon as lemurs do -- they know it is in the sky occasionally, and sometimes they may look up and marvel at the light it provides that particular night.
I know of no calendar conceived of in sub Saharan Africa.
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[–] goat_busters 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
In the video Lana is using Yule, the winter solstice holiday, as a foundation for analysis. Hence the sun reference. But you are right. She probably does take 'the solar year' idea a tad too far in what you describe.
Africa's Negro populations have the same relationship with the moon as lemurs do -- they know it is in the sky occasionally, and sometimes they may look up and marvel at the light it provides that particular night.
I know of no calendar conceived of in sub Saharan Africa.