I believe that the moon is the primary time giver in the meaning that it was the time giver before the sun. Long before the professionals started to observe the equinoxes and solstices everybody knew how to read the moon. (I leave the question of stars and planets until later.) Most of the ancient structures and myths regarding the moon certainly have survived in some form somewhere - they are part of the common human heritage in a way similar to the genes. We have the same genes all over the world and the same myths.

I have recently started to reread a book about the Chinese characters, from what pictures they evolved (Lindqvist). (I believe the common human heritage also contains pictures and symbols, though with different 'dialects'. The Easter Island miroglyphs is one such dialect.)

Already in the introduction to her book I found this picture of a turtle shell which - I think - maps the cycle of the moon:

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