As I write this, I'm popping outside frequently to watch the developing lunar eclipse, which should reach totality around 10 PM Eastern time. LaElu's house is on top of a ridge (1140 feet, per GPS), and I wonder who has watched eclipses in the past from this ridge, and what they thought. It's embarassing, but I don't know as I sit here what sort of solar system arrangement that early native Americans pictured -- probably heliocentric, but I'm not sure. What would such people make of the curved darkness crossing the full moon?
Is this musing mysticism or genuine and justified human wonder? Honestly, I don't know. (Wait a minute - justified to whom? Who do I need to justify this sense of wonder to?)
Pippa passes.
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3 comments:
We were supposed to have a total eclipse about 10 years ago. It wasn't very good, was very cloudy, although my mum lived in Cornwall at the time where it was at its best. She said it was dead eerie. Hope your eclipse was impressive.
It was cloudy here last night, so we didn't see anything. :(
we flew right over the moon that night
:D
I slept right through it
:(
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