Calendaring and chronicles from ancient times was reserved for priests and clerics. They followed the course of time, recording important events in the lives of its people. But the attitude at the time of different people at different time is perceived differently. We, Europeans, accustomed to the fact that time flows linearly, a certain sequence of moments that will never be repeated and is not reversible. Our calendars are often tear-off Sheets, who will never return to the place. These calendars are very symbolic – each of their list as the day, torn from a life that will never come back. Each of these torn from a calendar day is inevitable reduces the number of upcoming days of life, brings a European to his own death. But your attitude to the passage of time can not be taken for all cultures.
Ancient mythological cultures perceive time differently. For them calendar is not consistent, and cyclic. Day gives way to night, after the spring comes autumn, and then spring, nature at a time to die to be reborn again. For death comes rebirth, and death for him again, all regularly and consistently, but agree that this sequence and attitudes very different from the perception of the same phenomena in European culture. For the ethnic culture of death – not a tragedy, but only a transition from one state to another in order to return to the original. Such cycles prompted human nature, because nature is also "die" in the autumn to spring will be reborn. For such a culture of making the calendar meant fixation cycle, during which all returns to normal. " This is the calendar for a year and went to the European civilization, so even though we perceive the course of time as something irreversible, there is a certain cyclical: every year we celebrate the same holidays: New Year's Eve, Christmas Day, March 8, Thanks to the comparison of linear and cyclic flow of time, born model time as a spiral, which at every new turn passes through the same point, but somewhat differently.