Before we had science, humans relied on superstition to ... pin down the mechanics of our solar system. This made it possible to predict where on Earth an eclipse will be visible from, giving ...

Even in this age of science, superstitions die hard ... Where knowledge failed, myth filled the gaps. Many cultures imagined a solar eclipse occurred when a mythological being ate the sun.

Myth 4: A solar eclipse means the end of the world or ... "Some say that the baby superstitions date from the Aztecs, who believed that a celestial beast was biting the Sun — and the same ...

His ideas connect a rare celestial occurrence with a change in Old Kingdom traditions that altered pharaonic structures forever. A total solar eclipse swept across Egypt on April 1, 2471 BC, ...