The most ancient monuments are oriented toward sun and moon positions, and validate the idea that these luminaries loomed large in importance. This was the way we knew the times of planting and migration, could predict when the snows would begin, and then recede.
From the time we had enough consciousness to look up in wonder at what we were seeing, the Moon has held a special place in our imagination. It has been repeatedly proven that people get less sleep on nights when the Moon is full. I personally have been awakened by the full Moon, and since I was a small child, had a strange, instinctive fascination for it- as many children do. I felt the first stirrings of premonition, knowing that this was significant, and would get up in the middle of the night, let myself out into the yard, and would sit on the porch steps, gazing tirelessly at this mirror in the sky for prolonged periods.