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How Calendars Shaped Christmas: When Humans Tried to Cage Time
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How Calendars Shaped Christmas: When Humans Tried to Cage Time

December 25 exists because humans tried to trap the motion of the heavens… and almost failed. The Sun does not check a calendar. The Earth does not pause at midnight. The stars do not care that a year has ended. What we call time is not something we discovered.
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