Confucius say: Man in dark room grow old and die.
Though I truly like the cyclic part, and perhaps that is how uncivilized creatures perceive time. Everything seems to exist in an interactive state with something else. Consider orbital bodies, and the soothing of babies by rocking...
“Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years'” — Genesis 1:14 nkjv
After all, every measurement of time comes from astrology except the week, which comes from the Genesis creation.
