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There have been so many ways invented to keep track of time. The Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming (like many similar structures in the western US and Canada) is a prehistoric rock arrangement of 28 spokes emanating out of a hub; Native Americans used it to measure the summer and winter solstice and the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. Sundials were invented by ancient Egyptian and Babylonian astronomers to track the passage of daylight. (Moon dials have been invented too, but they are only accurate during a full moon.) The hour glass could keep track of the passage of smaller units of time as grains of sand fell from one chamber to the other. In the 14th century, the 24-hour day was developed and timepieces were created to mark the passing of time. Time was then further broken down to minutes and seconds with sophisticated clocks and wristwatches invented to accurately show them. This is chronos time, linear and measureable. The writer of Ecclesiastes is concerned with kairos time, which is pregnant with substance and meaning.
