The best known and most apparently circle is a year which we have segmented in seasons, months, weeks and days.
A year is the time it takes for the earth to orbit the sun one time.
We count our age in years, at least the time between birth and death.
The time from death to birth (the 'afterlife') exists in various imaginations, in the end it depends from the very own belief.
You can project a circle of life to a year as follows:
birth in the beginning of winter, rising up in spring,
adult phase and highest point in the beginning of summer,
late summer and early autumn the elder and in the middle of autumn the death.
In the time between death and birth all life stands still,
at least is frozen and the life is withdrawn
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