com forward slash dark horse to receive NUMBER_TOKEN off your first order scared you didn't i no no that was good all right yeah i think we're beyond you scaring me with things like that yes indeed indeed there's there's much scarier things of foot in the world frankly right which actually um this brings me to something i was going to say this is now a perfect segue you have cautioned me sometimes when i have warned that winter is coming that maybe that's not the best thing to say to people that it's a bit uh dark and foreboding and i believe i have come up with a solution oh good um i think it is very important that people be warned but you're right that may be a little precipitous and so what i'm thinking is autumn is coming right because it is right and you know the it is the equinox is a frightening a frightening development and there's nothing we can do to stop it it's it's not a frightening development i've actually i've been thinking about the equinox i figured you had i've been thinking about the equinox and the fact that this year it comes right about at exactly a full moon as well which is which is um you know not meaningful in in most senses except it also happens to coincide with the day that i will be making my next post on natural selections my substance newsletter so i've been thinking about the ways in which the equinox is a deeply meaningful time of the year in terms of the days being equal length and changing very very rapidly much more rapidly day length that is photo period changes much more rapidly around the equinoxes than it does at either solstice but it would have been the actual equinox would have been very very difficult for the ancients to identify precisely right as opposed to the moon right so you know the the phase of the moon is a giant sky clock um in in many ways and you know to for sure it's a giant sky calendar and if you understand the ways that it processes um also also to some degree o'clock but the equinox while very important for things like um planting and harvest and such um is a is going to be much less precisely used by ancient people than than things like moon phases um because cloud cover not withstanding cloud cover will change this but in general you can see the moon's phases and it's very hard to get precise on the equinox it is difficult to get precise um there are of course these physical clocks installed by many cultures around the world that allow them to figure out where they are not by calculating but by the you know the sun sets in this notch in the building uh at uh the solstice or the equinox and so there's an amazing one of these at inga right beautiful one in fact uh maybe i'll dig up a photo and that can be our um our thumbnail for this episode but sorry inga perka being um ecuador's largest incan ruin the inca not having gotten that far north um until relatively late you know so they were only the inca were only in what's modern day ecuador for NUMBER_TOKEN years or something less than NUMBER_TOKEN. and um the place that is now called incoperca was a place where the kenyari
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