My ornery Solstice opinions that arise in the face of this as “I dunno, I think there are two halves of rational ritual. One is being willing to let go of things that were pretty but not true. But I think another part is ’being willing to chill out about some things and let them be vaguely metaphorical and pretty.” I realize aeon has something of a technical meaning, but it feels like one of the vaguer “technically technical” words, and I think it’s just kinda fine for this phrase to obviously mean “a fucking long time, man.”
My ornery Solstice opinions that arise in the face of this as “I dunno, I think there are two halves of rational ritual. One is being willing to let go of things that were pretty but not true. But I think another part is ’being willing to chill out about some things and let them be vaguely metaphorical and pretty.” I realize aeon has something of a technical meaning, but it feels like one of the vaguer “technically technical” words, and I think it’s just kinda fine for this phrase to obviously mean “a fucking long time, man.”
Agreed, “ancient aeons” would be my preferred edit.
It’s a’ight, but you lose the “count the countless” phrase which is where part of the literary heft comes from.