We live in a mysterious universe, and springtime is a mysterious process in said universe–which the existence of Morris dancers only makes much more so…
The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse.
It is danced under blue skies to celebrate the quickening of the soil and under bare stars because it’s springtime and with any luck the carbon dioxide will unfreeze again. The imperative is felt by deep-sea beings who have never seen the sun and urban humans whose only connection with the cycles of nature is that their Volvo once ran over a sheep…
Just one of many Terry Pratchett quotes about Morris Dancing…