This was in response to a creative writing assighnment which requested a mythological explanation for the sundial.

Long, long ago there lived a content and unfortunately very lazy people known as the Woogis in a place known as Woogiland. They went about there daily lives working during the day and sleeping at night and they were happy. However over time they realized they had no way to schedule specific tasks during the daytime. All people could do was to tell someone to meet them at a certain place at some point in the day. That just wouldn't do for the Woogis; they decided they had to find a way to keep track of what would later be called time.
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