The White Circle In The Sky

High above the air, a big round stone goes around the ground we all live on. In the day it is hard to see, but after the sun goes down, it is the biggest and most beautiful light up there. It goes around us one time in about a month — this is why a month is as long as it is.

Its light is not its light

The white circle does not burn, and it does not make light. Its light belongs to the sun: the sun's light hits the circle's surface, and some of that light falls down to us.

Why you see its shape change

At times you see all of the circle; at times only a thin piece of it, like a cut fruit. The stone does not change shape. The sun's light hits one side of it, and what changes is how much of that side is turned towards us.

It pulls the big waters

All things pull on all other things, and big things pull hard. The white circle pulls on you, but you cannot feel it. The big waters can: they go up and down two times each day because the circle pulls them.

People have been there

Many years before now, people made an up goer that carried three men up and up: through the air, then above the air, to where there is no air at all. Two of the men went down and moved around on the stone. They found no water, no living things, and no sound. Because there is no air there, no air moves about, and the marks made by their feet will be there for a very, very long time. People are now planning to go there another time.