Paul Farquhar
Legend
None.
Societies that believe eclipses mean something do not believe that it is caused by the shadow of the moon. Nor do they believe in gravitational fields, orbital mechanics or any of stuff.
D&D General Can a Wish spell move a moon to cause an eclipse?
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billd91
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Whether they recognize it's because of orbital mechanics or believe it's Fenris chomping on the sun, I'm pretty sure they recognize it's different from the shadow of a tennis ball.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Unless you have some way to determine the distance there is no way to tell the difference. Because the eclipsing object has the light source behind it’s impossible to see it. A black disk is a black disk.
Heh, reminded me of this gem:
"Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Yabi are renowned for being remarkably short and bad-tempered." —Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
Sepulchrave II
Legend
I don’t really think this is accurate.
The ancient Babylonians understood well enough in the Second Millennium BCE that when the Moon’s path crossed that of the Sun then an eclipse would occur - to the extent that they could predict them years in advance.
But such events were still considered momentous; reflective of divine action.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
The ancient Babylonians believed the moon was a god called Nanna who took about 30 days to travel across the heavens. They did not believe in a 1,700 km rocky sphere that orbited another rocky sphere at a distance of around 380,000 km due to something called mavity.
Sepulchrave II
Legend
Sure. But that’s not what I replied to. This is what I replied to:
You said:
Which is why I wrote:
Me said:
Because, regardless of the metaphysics, the Babylonians understood that the Moon was blocking the light of the Sun.
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abirdcall
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Every prime material plane has its own rules.
This one might only have mythical ones.
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