Most of us accept the standard explanation of time without question. Earth rotates on its own axis — that gives us a day. Earth orbits the Sun — that gives us a year. The Moon orbits Earth — that gives us a month. It is a tidy, mechanical model. And it is, according to Tengri cosmological wisdom, incomplete. In Mongolian shamanic tradition, time does not arise from planets moving through empty space. Time arises from living relationships between celestial bodies — relationshi