Ever since the beginning of human civilization, people had been looking up into the night sky

and watching these spell-binding movements of celestial objects, among the only things

in their environment that were animated yet not living creatures.

It must be magic, or those objects must have some cosmic importance.

So we've been doing our best to interpret them for 100,000 years, and weaving narratives

about them that satisfied our curiosity. And that practice hasn't changed. Even today, humans

look up at the moon and form some belief.

And many of those beliefs have become persistent myths that remain widely believed.

And in our extended content for premium members, one of the opposite, something that most

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