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Article: WHO BUILT the moon? It shapes our lives, governs our behaviour and keeps the Earth on an even keel. Now a new book poses the mind-boggling question:.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2005
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Byline: JONATHAN FOREMAN
MAN HAS always been fascinated by the Moon, and viscerally aware of its powers. Cavemen tracked its movements on cave walls. Stone circles were built to reflect its rhythms, and the cult of Moon Goddess is thought to have dominated humanity for thousands of years.
Primitive tribes as distant as Mexico and Mesopotamia worked out that the Moon's movements influenced the tides and correlated with women's menstrual cycles - indeed, most civilisations until ours had used lunar months to measure time.
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