Long before telescopes or wisdom, long before humans indeed had metropolises or timetables, the Moon was formerly there — gaping back at us. It was the first timepiece, the first riddle, and perhaps the first glass. Every culture that ever lived under its gleam tried to explain it, name it, worship it, or sweat it. In this part, we’ll trace how the Moon shaped mortal imagination — from the abodes of ancient lines to the tabernacles of early societies and why it still holds us in its strange, quiet graveness. 1. The First Connection The Moon and the mortal Mind Imagine early humans