Was Halloween Born From Watching the Sky?

The object that exploded over Tunguska on June 30th, 1908 is connected to a broader pattern worth examining, and that pattern centers on the Taurid meteor shower, which peaks in the days leading up to and following Halloween. Halloween itself was an almost universal observance in the ancient world, and the argument here is that this near-universal recognition was not arbitrary. It likely stems from people across many cultures directly experiencing the Taurid meteor shower at a time when it was significantly more active than it is today, a fact astronomers themselves acknowledge. If a meteor shower that is now a fairly modest annual event was once intense enough to be woven into ritual and tradition across multiple civilizations independently, that tells you something about the scale of what people were witnessing in the sky, and it raises the question of what else in the ancient calendar might trace back to direct observation of celestial events rather than to abstract symbolism.