The oldest of sciences is astronomy, born from our fascination with looking at the night sky and trying to understand the seasonal repetition of the motions observed in the sun, moon, planets and stars.  Some of the earliest artifacts that remain from early modern man are thought to be records of the phases of the moon. This was proposed by Alexander Marshack in the early 1960’s and documented in countless bone carvings, as old as 30,000 years ago that seemed to be notations that recorded the moon’s waxing and waning.  In structures such as Stonehenge in the UK, Cuiquilco in Mexico, the woodhenge at Cahokia and the numerous medicine wheels scattered across North America, early man tried to make a physical record on the ground of the actual happenings in the heavens to assist him in imagining what was happening above him.

    There are mythic stories from some of the tribes of North America’s South West that see the reflections of the sky in the puddles formed by the seasonal rains as the “‘Eyes of the Earth’.  All of these creations that look out into the universe are aids to our own vision.  They are all eyes of the Earth.