Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for.

• Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All indigenous people around the world knew the wisdom of the turtle … It’s almost as it white man severed the connection between the people and the sun …

  Wtf is this woo woo garbage lmao

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn’t you know the world sits on the back of a giant turtle??

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    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Turtles all the way down.

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a turtle, bro.

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• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  how did the cherokee account for the fact that this is mathematically incorrect and would cause dates to drift across the actual solar year?

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  • Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, it’s incorrect when it comes to the solar year but is correct when it comes to the lunar cycles. So I guess they didn’t track time by the solar year then. It’s just a matter of cultural perspective. Tracking the seasons and the lunar cycles were probably more important to Indigenous Americans because of needing to know when to seed, harvest, and hunt as opposed to knowing the exact time it takes for the earth to loop around the sun.

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    • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the seasons are a function of the earth’s position in its orbit around the sun, not the number of moon cycles that have taken place

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      • Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        OK. Whatever you say. I guess the turtle shell is all bullshit.

        You must’ve come from reddit.

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