Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Solar eclipses are cool, but for most of human history in many religions, they were viewed as extremely dangerous.

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Bibliography:
Lange and McLeish, "Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts," Oxford University Press: 2024.
Littmann, Espenak, Willcox, "Totality: Eclipses of the Sun," 3rd edition, 2009.
Dowd and Milbrath, "Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica," University of Colorado: 2015.
Milbrath, "Eclipse Imagery in Mexica Sculpture of Central Mexico," Vistas in Astronomy, Vol. 39, 479-502: 1995.
Emil Khalisi, "Eclipses in the Aztec Codices," 2020.
Ross, "Eclipses and the Precipitation of Conflict: Deciphering the Signal to Attack," in The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome." 2016.

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