Brought to mind Isaac Asimov's Nightfall, about a world where the stars only appear every thousand years or so:
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Which includes a fascinating role of religion! Guarding secrets and issuing warnings, even though they don’t understand the underlying reason. Science of the time can’t figure out why the warnings are necessary, so culture partially ignores them, to its own peril
Same. Great book.-
Originally a short story! Never read the book, but the short story was good.
Indeed. Guy's so missed.-
And, Sagan, and that caliber ...