ABSTRACT
Time constitutes a major parameter in organizing individual and collective human experience. Far from being a universal category, time’s conceptualization and categorization are subject to change and differ from culture to culture.1
Moreover, within each culture different conceptions of time concur. Hence, biological time, the natural cycle of the sun, the moon and the seasons in different systems of chronology, the ritual time of the liturgical calendar, a group’s sense of its own past, present, and future, and the idea of cosmic time – all overlap in individual and collective attempts of connecting and, therefore, imposing meaning on disjointed events.
