However, the culture of the Australian Aborigines, which has been passed down via legends, songs, and dances for more than 40,000 years, gives us a glimpse of how these earliest known astronomers interpreted the Sun and stars. The Aborigines represent the world's oldest and most long-lived culture, a heritage rich in wisdom and insight. The Aborigines are at one with the Earth, nature, and the sky. Aborigine songs, dances, and tales convey how, long ago, the Spirit Ancestors created the natural world and entwined the people into a close inter-relationship with nature and the sky. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution.
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun.
But I have never been able to make out the numbers. One astronomer set up his equipment in an empty chicken coop to protect his instruments from the wind, and then spent most of the eclipse trying to shoo away the chickens, who dutifully reported to the roost when darkness fell. Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire. Red sky at night, sailors delight. Feynman One cannot learn anything so well as by experiencing it oneself.