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Excellent article, Anya! 😊🌞🌑

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Loved this! Especially this oh-so-modern sounding description, like a wedding column in the NYT: "On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance."

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Ha ha!!! Can you imagine the bride's dress??

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I know, right?! 😂

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Could the aforementioned Assyrian eclipse of 763 BC be associated with Jonah's mission to Nineveh?

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Yesterday, the proverb "there is nothing new under the sun" came to my mind as well!! I was reminded also that our phenomena, and ecstatic moments, and struggles, and birth pangs that sorrow can produce, are not that all unique. We are all readers here and reading has proven that the very things causing us those feelings and experiences are the threads that connect us to humanity throughout classical and all of mankind’s history.

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It's a humbling reminder...

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Here it comes! Here it comes!

A then a couple of minutes of Aaah, Wow, Awesomes and there it goes, there it goes!

Oh well add it to the list of prior BC beheadings, end of wars etc.

AD - what’s it done in the USA this time… Democrats & Republicans hugging each other, or it being explained as why solar power is the earths energy savior ?

In Down Under in 2023 this is how you do it…

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/20/total-solar-eclipse-2023-april-20-exmouth-western-australia-darkness-reaction

Amazing amount of energy, excitement, ‘Wow Amazing’ expended for what typically happens every night when the sun goes to bed😂

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Haaa haaa! I like the comic 'reproductions' you can see across the globe. Missed the eclipse? Check out this avocado crossing the tortilla. Makes me think of the Pericles story above with his cloak...

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Your amount of knowledge on various subjects blows my mind. Not many have heard of Ho / Hi. From what i understand, this story was kept alive from just one guys memory, after all historical records were burned. The ancients definitely took their astronomy very serious, as they seen no difference at all between the nature of the terrestrial to the celestial. So, if the star gazers were off with thier calculation, it was a huge deal, being the posterity of a nation down to the individual health (iatromathematics) hung on the accuracy.

There is another way to look at the Ho Hi myth. Being, the story is eastern myth- this may have been allegorical as pointed out by Isaac Newton and Madame Blavatsky. The secret supreme being of the Egyptians was HU-HI, the Mongolian dual principle, HO and HI, which assimilated to the Sanskrit FOHAT or “Cosmic Energy” and ICHCHA, “Human Will.”

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Wow! That is fascinating... I didn't know about the Egyptian or Mongolian references... I can also understand how much panic people may have had when an eclipse occurs (how much panic was the media projecting even now??) and often one needs a scapegoat afterwards. Drunk astronomers would have been just the ticket.

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If people were not aware of the eclips from social media and news, I really don't think many people would even have noticed. That's really true here in Seattle, where it's cloudy a lot. It never goes dark, as some of the myths reference.

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Eclipses: Only scare people in sunny places... It would be interesting to cross reference mythologies in more northern countries, for example...

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