I heard the most interesting thing the other day. The reason they said the world rode through the cosmos on the back of a turtle, was the way the shell is laid out. 13 interior squares and 28 squares around the outside. A lunar calander with 13 months of 28 days was as accurate as it got until the Gregorian calander. The inaccuracies would eventually screw up your seasons, so you needed a way to mark that. They used the zodiac, the stars to measure solstices and seasons. When to plant, when to reap. So because the zodiac moves across the sky, you are swimming on the back of a turtle.
I heard the most interesting thing the other day. The reason they said the world rode through the cosmos on the back of a turtle, was the way the shell is laid out. 13 interior squares and 28 squares around the outside. A lunar calander with 13 months of 28 days was as accurate as it got until the Gregorian calander. The inaccuracies would eventually screw up your seasons, so you needed a way to mark that. They used the zodiac, the stars to measure solstices and seasons. When to plant, when to reap. So because the zodiac moves across the sky, you are swimming on the back of a turtle.