Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying
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Because eclipses are powerful and frightening events, ancient cultures went to great lengths to understand eclipses, leading to remarkably accurate predictions and helping invent the science of astronomy.
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Fun Fact: The serpent in the thumbnail is known as Bakunawa, he wants to eat the Moon, and when he successfully does (but only for a short while because Filipino deities make him spit it out), he causes eclipses.
I just got an image of vague god figures smacking the serpent with a paddle going “No! Bad Bakunawa!”
@@lemagicbaguette1917 Nowhere has it been said that they *didn't* do that
@@lemagicbaguette1917 "Hey, Ba- wait, what's in your mouth? What-hey! What is that?! Open your mouth! No-sp-spit it out! Don't swallow it, DONT SWALLOW IT."
Yep. And it was best demonstrated in the period series, Amaya. A lunar eclipse occurred when the protagonist, Amaya, was born.
@lemagicbaguette1917 I was imagining exactly that, like a dog eating what they aren't supposed to. Filipino mythology usually goes hard but I'd like to think this is the case for this
Lunar Eclipse: Moon turns red because moon is mad or something
Solar Eclipse: **E A T T H E S U N**
fun fact: lunar eclipse in chinese also means the moon getting eaten
If you can get to where the total eclipse next April crosses (path of totality), ABSOLUTELY do. A partial eclipse like most of us will see in the US tomorrow is kinda neat. A total eclipse is COMPLETELY different with weird physical phenomena that make you understand why it was so scary to ancient cultures. It's more than just the sky going dark. We understand the physical phenomena involved but it still feels like an ethereal experience.
Tomorrow pay attention to shadows on the ground as the partial eclipse passes. You will notice they change, and the shadows between leaves make it clear why - the shadow of the moon is shaping the light that the edges of nearer shadows are bringing into focus. This effect is more pronounced near totality and with animals falling suddenly silent and the temperature suddenly dropping, nearly all your senses tell you something strange is going on.
Just gotta say I feel so blessed/amazed that our moon’s size and orbit and the distance between the earth and the moon and the sun are all so perfect that we get BOTH annular and total solar eclipses with the same moon. How insane!
If you're in a partial eclipse the coolest thing you can see are the dots of sunlight cast through tree leaves. They all appear crescent-shaped and you get some really odd shadows.
@@mathmusicandlooks that size:distance is changing daily
I was in the totality August 2017. I have been in partials several times. fun, exciting, educational
I’ve never had the chance to see a total solar eclipse, but I’ve seen a near-total one, and it’s a totally different experience to a more partial eclipse, because it actually gets darker, and the light gets weird because there’s no sunset. The most accurate description I’ve heard for how the light looks during a near-total eclipse is that it’s like a “day for night” filter in real life.
Too bad ancient people didn't have Wan Shi Tong's spirit library so they could predict an eclipse to defeat the fire nation.
He doesn't like his wisdom being used for that purpose, remember?
@@Chaos89P yeah. But people are gonna do as people always do.
i thought this was a joke to wan shi tong as in wa shing ton, but its just an atla reference.
Definitely!
LOL
They still are - Guts
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No way cute twink will commit war crime
Here’s your obligatory “Griffith did nothing wrong “
F***k, this triggered me 🫤
Sacrificed the whole team for a gay batman suit
It's crazy how much patience and methodical record-keeping is necessary to predict eclipses
Now look up the Antikythera Mechanism. Built somewhere between 200-80 BC, designed to act as a calculator for all sorts of stellar positions (and when the Olympic Games would happen). Absurdly intricate to the point where they didn't have precise enough metallurgy to make it work accurately despite being soundly designed.
@@colbyboucher6391 I remember hearing about that. It's mindblowing the world's first computer/calculator, using gears that wouldn't be common until the late Renaissance
Fear of the unknown is the most terrifying thing ever.
You don't know me, fear me.
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” H.P Lovecraft
@@catvanbrian9470 Exactly.
@@Michael-xm4uxEEEEEEEK
Fear of forgetting about things or things themselves, along with of the future is worse.
Small correction - in Chinese the most common form of the myth is actually 天狗食日, which translates to "Celestial Dog Eating the Sun". The celestial dog is also related to the myth of Chang'e and Houyi and it is rumored to cause both solar and lunar elipses.
yea it's either dog or toad eating the moon in Chinese myths and only dogs eat the sun and result in lunar and solar eclipse respectively from what I've seen so far, I'm really curious where did they get the dragon from
Like over the moon?
@@AcademicJaedonThe one in Over the Moon is a playful adaption to fit the movie and its target audience. The origin of 天狗 varies (just like basically any myths), and in version involving Hou Yi and Chang 'E's, which the story itself also has several versions, the dog came from the one where Chang 'E ate the *ascension pills (excuse my translation attempt) Huang Mu Liang Liang (A goddess of ranking among the gods in Heaven of Chinese folklore religion) gifted Hou Yi as a reward for shooting down the 9 extra suns off from the sky. Hou Yi's dog witnessed her doing so and licked the remainants before chasing after Chang 'E who is ascending to the sky. Chang 'E learns the dog is going after her and hid in the moon, which the dog grew big and swallowed it in whole in its pursuit. Wang Mu was in panic to learn the moon is being swallowed and ordered the soldier of the Heaven take the dog to her, but after realizing it was the dog of Hou Yi she promoted it to become a watchdog in of the South Gate in Heaven, with the now 天狗 spliting the moon out in return.
The 天狗 in this version didnt really eat the moon periodically but my comment is already too long for others to have the willpower to read through for me to share the other versions I've heard
* By ascension it isnt simply going upwards but ascending spiritually to become more "god-like"
My dog ate it
It was incredibly rainy and cloudy on 14th so we didn’t see it
Got to see a 75% solar eclipse in Washington back in '17, it was pretty surreal
I've never seen 2017 written as '17 before and thought you were referring to 1917 😄
@@ikbintom I should have been more specific: I meant 1517 😅
Are you talking about the one in 2017 that was a 100% TOTAL eclipse just down in Oregon? It's a totally different experience when you actually get to take your protective glasses off to look at the sun.
@@pauldickman4379 Yup, I was living in Seattle and by astrological luck, my lunch break was during the eclipse that morning
@@Richie_GodsilI was outside and it got COLD.
The path of 100% eclipse is really narrow, and it passed over my home 3 years ago!!! A really odd, once-in-a-lifetime experience.
[if you move to see one, be sure to be near the center of the path, where complete darkness lasts longer; we were near one border, so full darkness was brief]
Random cloud in otherwise cloudless sky: I'm going to ruin this guy's life dream
@@pierrecurie Even worst: it was cloudy and raining 4-5 hs before the total eclipse. Fortunately wind did its thing and, while not cloudless, we were able to enjoy it!
(other circumstances proved harder to revert: most planned travels and events were cancelled after covid-19 pandemic restrictions…)
If you don't know what's actually going on, seeing the Sun itself go dark can be quite ominous indeed.
The babylonians are insane, imagine measuring that hundreds of years before tech meant for the skies
As a Terraria player, they *STILL* are terrifying.
need my broken hero swords tho
I reasearched some of this for my mythology art project my senior year. The minokawa was my favorite. In the Philippines, the islanders believed that eclipses were caused by a giant bird with a metal beak and claws (the minokawa) trying to eat the moon. If it succeeded, it would then eat the sun, and then the earth. BUT they also believed you could scare off the beast with loud noises. So basically every time an eclipse happened the ancient Filipino people would start playing music and yelling at the sky until it stopped 😂 (no disrespect to the Filipino ppl btw, it’s just a funny mental image. “HONEY, THE MOONS BEING EATEN AGAIN! GET THE DRUMS!!” *Plays music in panic* )
Here's a more brutal part, during eclipses, some tribes in this nation before literally pluck their nails out and scream as painfully as they could in belief it would cringe the Eldritch beast from eating the sun or spit the moon away.
Sounds like the best tradition!
Ah glad to get to know more about the myth dragon, I chuckled when I read that last part. plus as a Filipino some similar thing happen whenever it's New Year you would hear not only firecrackers and fireworks but loud music playing in houses and airhorns with banging of loud shìt like pots. I think the tradition on it is for warding off bad luck or something to begin a new year but yep
Filipino here. In my place, we have a "bakunawa" instead. Some would say that it's a Pinoy Jörmungandr, so let's oversimplify it as that
But yah, same story. This creature would attempt to eat the moon. There was even this tale that there were seven moons before, but we now only have one because the Bakunawa succeeded in eating the other six
The only difference is that the Bakunawa is not a bird. It's more like a sea serpent, or a Jörmungandr if you'd call it that way
Theres also bakunawa which is a serpent
And my favorite tambanokano moon eating crab
It's was terrifying because when the sun was "eaten" by a black circle most of the people who watched the event lost their sights
Oh hrm, didn't even think about the blindness factor.
That had to be horrifying.
I'm sure they knew not to look at the sun... But when the sun is being blocked by something...
Even people today don't know to NOT look at it.
And not knowing what was happening would lead to more people staring in fright or trying to figure it out.
Crazy.
And then all of the other stuff that happens.. Changes in light, the darkness and the horizon looking like it is on fire ALL around you.... Etc etc... . 100% fear inducing if you have no clue and not long enough of history to know that the sun ALWAYS comes back.
As an Oregonian, I was so excited to see the eclipse tomorrow morning... Then I realized it'd be super cloudy everywhere around 😭
Rip 😭
That’s what you get for living there
What a bummer! I was in Utah and it was just cloudy during the eclipse, cleared up minutes after 😡
Yup mother nature being beautiful while giving you the middle finger lol
@@muffinconsumer4431What’s Wrong With Oregon
"Like the solar eclipse that will happen on September 7, 2974; that will happen on 12:51 pm local time, will pas right over Stonehenge."
Mark your calendars people! This is an incredible once in a lifetime opportunity you don't want to miss
edit: Darn, I'm busy that week...
but no uber willing to ride me to the Stonehenge bro :(
Darn, with airplane tickets being at least $300, i Don’t think i have it in my budget to make it to that one.
@@shhinysilver1720Naw, hovercraft is the way to go. Though the International-15 is killer.
I’ll be long dead in 2974 and have a ringside seat for the event
@@leociresi4292 bro you somehow remind me to moai 🗿 statues.. i feel like they're the ppl who waiting to long to get ubered to the Stonehenge
So sad you didn't even mentioned the Maya and other mesoamerican civilizations, that were extremely good at keeping record of eclipses 😢
I remember being in partial eclipse in 2017 and feeling the temperature drop significantly. Thanks to glasses, I also got to see the moon covering half the sun.
A friend went to the path of totality and said it was the most beautiful surreal Horizon looked like daytime/dusk and everywhere else looked like night. So cool.
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The best weapon against fear is knowledge.
From my past experiences with solar eclipses, including the recent Ring of Fire Eclipse, I noticed that some animals, including insects, behave strangely when an eclipse happens, especially when they’re closer to the path of totality. It’s like they’re freaking out that they must’ve accidentally set their internal clocks wrong, and nighttime might’ve came WAY earlier than they initially thought it would.
It’s pretty understandable why some ancient civilizations of humans would behave the same way when an eclipse happens, but rather less forgetting that the sun is setting sooner, but more mass hysteria, and fear of the Earth ending, or the sun being consumed by a powerful deity, which may be a sign of eternal (and advanced) darkness.😅
if I had no idea what an eclipse was, and I saw it randomly one day. I’d probably freak the f out.
Oh dang, I didn't even realize there was gonna be an eclipse tomorrow. Now I'm considering making the 3 hour drive down to the path of totality.
Since its annular it’ll still be awesome to look at if you cant make it through the path
@@robrod7120 What's the logic there? Annular eclipses and total eclipses look about the same when you're not directly in the path.
You should 100% make the trip to see it! Make sure you have proper eye protection though, since you can't look directly at an annular eclipse even at its peak.
Or maybe consider if it's really that important to experience it personally. I mean it can be amazing, sure, especially if shared with people, but my rule of thumb is to avoid using fossil fuel if it's just for my entertainment.
Who’s here after seeing the April 8 total solar eclipse?
Me
i just watched today's eclipse at the northeastern coast of brazil, my mom even asked on the way how did ancient civilizations react to these phenomena, i gave her my best explanation, including that of skoll and haati from norse mythology, but i'll forward her this video so she can learn more :)
It wasn't just eclipses, but also comets. Some people thought them to be bad omens. Frankly, it would be interesting to go back in time and tell people of the true natures of eclipses and comets, how they are more objects of fascination rather than fear. If anything, the only thing about comets that you have to worry about is if they hit the Earth.
They would probably think you were crazy
@@SCP-173peanut Yeah, I know. Such is the power of superstition over science, of dogma over empirical evidence, of propaganda over fact, of fear over logic.
In ancient Hindu tradition, the solar and lunar eclipses are caused by two gods called Rahu and Ketu. They are invisible points in space, but their predictable movements are mapped in astrological charts along with the sun, moon and planets. They aren't exactly evil, but they are supposed to have a malefic influence.
Being in the shadow of a total eclipse is an experience you will never forget.
tomorrow's eclipse will pass right over my city, I'm so excited
Who here saw the April 8th eclipse amazing right
I saw the one a couple days ago and my family has been planning to go to Texas for the one in the spring for 6 years ever since I saw my first total solar eclipse in 2017 in Wyoming.
Eclipses are fascinating, especially the one from today!
That’s pretty sharp for 2,600 years ago. They had to rely on whatever records people from their part of the world happen to have kept and didn’t get destroyed, plus the “8 hours” thing meant it wouldn’t be quite as orderly a pattern (it’d be like “162 years ago, 144, ___, 108, 90, ___, 54, ___, ___, and now”).
The unease that everyone has when witnessing their first one, even when they know it's coming, is always immediately apparent.
My dad told me how when he lived in Laos as a kid there was a solar eclipse and many of the people in the village fired their Muskets in a attempt to scare off a beast because they thought it was eating the sun
Great video!
I live in North Carolina and brought my eclipse glasses, which I got a few years ago when the eclipse passed through Sylva, to church and showed some people. I saw the moon cover halfway across the sun. One of the people told me that the roosters in Mexico crew at midday.
one of the best thumbnails ive ever seen
I can't wait already bought my solar eclipse glasses
Got to see the Oct 14 eclipse, pretty neat stuff
I went to the eclipse that happened a few years ago in Idaho. I was a bit freaked out as well when it happened. One moment, everything looks like a normal day. A few minutes later, darkness in a matter of seconds. What's weird is that you could still see everything like it was daytime, but you can also clearly see that the sun and sky was pitch black. I can definitely see how people from centuries ago saw it as a bad omen of sorts.
Remind me in 950 years for the solar eclipse
It’s not that far away
There’s an eclipse tomorrow and I’m getting 90%
Wow, just watched the total solar eclipse mentioned at the end of the video and it was breathtaking. A false across the whole horizon, night so dark the stars came out, the red glimmers of solar prominences along the corona, the birds and grasshoppers beginning to cry, and the sudden light as it slid away; like a light switch being flipped.
Bucket list material, for sure.
People who saw the eclipse today
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That was my birthday
This reminds me of the Korean historical series Queen Seon Deok, where Mishil, the main antagonist, wrestled with Seon Deok, the protagonist, for the information regarding the upcoming Solar Eclipse to use for their interests.
It concluded with Mishil being deceived by Seon Deok that a solar eclipse won't happen, and it cost her her title as a "Divine Lady" capable of predicting celestial phenomena. Of course, the solar eclipse did happen, which paved the way for Seon Deok to regaining her throne as a princess and being recognized as the one capable to overthrow Mishil.
Berserk manga fans do know the eclipse is appalling.
I fly airplanes all over the Oregon area especially around Eugene. Unfortunately tomorrow it’s supposed to be overcast across the entire western portion of the state so unless you’re in an airliner at just the right time you won’t get to see it.
They're still awe-inspiring. There's something deeply primal of that eerie twilight suddenly turning to night. The total eclipse makes you realize how small you are.
People watching on April 8th 2024
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I'm looking forward to going to the center of path of the upcoming total solar eclipse in April. I've only ever witnessed partial eclipses, so this is going to be incredible. (if it doesn't rain . . . . )
The thumbnail is cute honestly 🧡❤🔥🐉
I was literally thinking the same thing the other fay about some ancient mesoamerican tribe sacrificing their son to the sun god and then 30 minutes later the sun just dissappearing and chaos happening
Thats like if new york randomly lost power for like 30 minutes itd be insane
Sadly in my country there's still literal years left for my first solar eclipse
Fingers crossed that the 2974 eclipse will be slightly off the current prediction due to countless large spaceships moving around transferring a measurable amount of momentum over centuries
The Solar Eclipse here in Houston, Texas was nice!
4:00 this feels... familiar
i like how every eclipse event this video slides into my recommendations
eclipses still are terrifying my mom used to board the windows with postarboard every time there was one so we couldn't look outside and see it by accident
Just saw the total solar eclipse in Ohio. That was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.
Only in OHIO
@@rainbowoncrack8948 Nope.
Yes! I live right smack dab in the path of the next total solar eclipse. I’m so excited!!! 😆
Honestly fair enough if i didn’t know what the heck an eclipse was and the sun disappeared suddenly I would also freak out.
Reminds me of the book ‘Eclipse’
It was still a little scary, even knowing exactly when and why it was happening. Imagine being one of those ancient people..
“If you live in North America” *proceeds to only show eclipse lines over the United States with Canada and Mexico dimmed out*
Ah yes, Americans…
Idk a *bloody red moon* is more terrifying to me, specially in cases where it also looks a lot bigger than usual. I casually saw it a few times, I never saw an eclipse personally.
You guys are terrified of these but I yearn to experience one. It would be so damn awesome seeing day turn into night for a few minutes.
Thank you❤
That eclipse at Stonehenge is probably going to draw a ton of tourism.
I wish more maps included the “partial eclipse” band; only showing the path of totality makes people think they can’t enjoy it from elsewhere!
I’m excited to see a max of ~95% coverage today (6+ hours drive from the path of totality, not even that close) with my ISO 12312-2 eclipse viewing glasses and some nearby trees for fun pinhole projection photos!
Another video, this channel is so underrated
Are there any recommendations for brands or places to get solar eclipse glasses?
Eclipses usually always happen clockwise of the Zodiac wheel moving backwards from one sign each year.
Theyre extra scary if you stare directly into them for several minutes at a time xp
And if you do so without proper filtered viewers, it might literally be the last thing you see.
I mean yeah, if a giant hole opened up in the sun , or if the moon changed to the color of blood randomly, people are gonna be scared
Imagine if an ancient dude was transported to modern days right at the solar eclipse with all the humans celebrating.
I live in Maryland and I can say the partial Eclipse looked like Pacman 😂. Great video 🌕🌓🌗🌑 Very insightful and informative 👍👍
Guess it would be terrifying for something to block out the sun for us on Earth...at least we know it's only the moon now.
Im the only one who did not see it😢
Head to Spain for the next one on August 12th 2026
I saw the total
"So scientists still have a lot of question about what the builders' [of stone henge] intentions were." Historians. Historians and archeologists still have a lot of questions. I have noticed a tendency in popular education to erase historians and archeologists and replace them with "scientists." This further diminishes the relevance, interest, and public visibility of the humanities.
PS. I love your videos. I just wanted to mention this as I frequently see this erasure in a great deal of public education and journalistic media.
So ready tomorrow :)
I think I can see why people in the past thought the sun was being eaten. When you look at a partial eclipse it looks like a bitten cookie! 2 days ago i experienced a partial eclipse and I loved it! Looking forward to the 2024 total solar eclipse.
Corrections:
1:25 missing character - 舊染俗
1:35 script - non trivial, just tad annoying. Cross sourced from the paper mentioned [Liu C. et al., “Examination of early Chinese records of solar eclipses”]
名堅 -> 懿王名堅 懿"lit. Yi" 王"King" 名"Name(personal)" 堅"lit. Jian(囏)"
...王即位天再旦鄭 -> ...王即位天再旦鄭 rough trans. ...(when)King throned, sky(sun) rearrived Zheng
七年西戎鎬 -> 七年西戎鎬
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十七年魯厲公 -> 十七年魯厲公
二十一年公帥師北伐犬戎敗 -> 二十一年公帥師北伐犬戎敗
二十五年王 -> 二十五年王 Year 25, King "lifted", aka dead.
Lesson here: don't rely on OCR too much, especially for ye olden texts!
I saw the annular solar eclipse of 2023, but from Phoenix, so I didn't see the moon actually reach it's peak annularity. i am looking forward to the total eclipse of 2024.
I saw an annular solar eclipse on the the 14 tbh using eclipse glasses and used it as lens to take2 or 3 pics
When you just finished plantera maybe but with pillar gear? Not so much
Bro need to read Berserk
Just enjoyed the April 8, 2024 eclipse yesterday! :)
Looks like the eclipses paths overlap in Texas.
...Lucky me, I live in Texas! 😄
San Antonio gets a double bullseye
@@secularmonk5176 That's my city! Honestly pretty amazing
I didn’t get to see the Oct 14 eclipse because it was raining on that day
In Fiji the next Solar Eclipse will happen on October 3rd 2024
0:25 One of the meanings of the word *grahan* in Bangla language which is used to denote eclipse, is also *to eat* !
Yeah, Rahu is the graha of ellipse. Rahu eats the sun temporarily. However we did know that it was caused by the moon. Aryabhatta wrote about ellipses in the Aryabhatiyam
imagine how lucky those of us in san antonio feel to have both solar eclipses pass through us
As a Berserk fan i agree with the title
Great! I get might actually have a chance to see the eclipse this year. After so many missed chances.
Note to self: check back of notes binder 1-27-24
If the sun and moon were not in harmony, it seems at least those (poetic) scholars didn’t believe there was a chance of the sun being consumed by a non-existing creature. So that’s interesting too.
MinuteEarth:Eclipses used to be terrifying
Terrarians:well it still is
How awesome. Folk tales and myths caused by wanting to explain the unknown… Festivals and traditional events do have lore! Some writing material that is..
It's a pity dragons are extinct now, so we have to use the moon to cause eclipses.
I haven't seen a solar eclipse in a long time because last time one was visible in my area, morning fog made it impossible to see. I've seen a lunar eclipse more recently. As for the April 8th eclipse, it will be a partial one for me.
Same here the April 8 one will be 90% for me and I got to see the lunar eclipse this week which was my first one but the October eclipse was cloudy so I couldn’t see it
i was actually just going to rant about how terrifying eclipse is and intellij is better but then i realized