Imagine you have a stick
A stick in the sand gives you the tool to observe the sun’s yearly path in the sky from midwinter to midsummer and back.
Immaculate Conception and Enlightenment
The eternal cycle of life the bhuddists are trying to escape compared to the removal of the eternal sin by salvation through christ.
The pattern and its principles
the observance and recording of the pathways of the sun and moon provide a calendar that is expressed in an anthropomorphized diagram.