Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
whole population.
These religious spectacles were staged with exquisite precision to a calendar
set by a giant celestial clock, the movement of the sun, moon, and stars across the
sky. Lives were short but people accumulated thousands of years of observations
that could be passed down by various forms of notation. T h e y paid particularly close
attention to the exact turning points of the year, the spring and fall equinoxes and
the summer and winter solstices, the four points marking the change of season. T h e
great festivals of the year were held at these times, with a greater festival marking the
beginning of the N e w Year.
T h e i r interest in the cycles of time was practical, a life and death matter.
A delay of as little as a few days in planting or harvesting could mean that a crop
would fail and there would be nothing to eat through the winter, dooming most to
die
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