In the southern hemisphere, seasons are inverted compared to the northern hemisphere. Before the current knowledge that this is caused by Earth’s tilt compared to its rotation around the sun, how did people explain this?
Who were these ancient people travelling between hemispheres often enough and quickly enough to note that seasons were the other way round? If they existed at all, surely the first thing they’d notice is the warm sun by the equator and colder, wetter weather the other way.
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