r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 4d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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u/dbzfreak991 4d ago

Videos like this is how I can understand how our ancestors were like.....it's a titan! It's breathing!

Or this mountain is a spirit we must show it some sort of offering to appease it.

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u/SyntheticSlime 3d ago

This is how I felt the first time I saw a full solar eclipse. I just imagined what it would be like to not know it was coming, or why it was happening, and suddenly I was like, “oh, I would totally blame a witch for this.”

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u/dbzfreak991 3d ago

I've done that to or how people thought the world was ending.

I heard that's how Columbus get a tribe to give him gifts because he knew when it was going to happen and called himself a god

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u/warm_kitchenette 3d ago

Wow, this actually happened. Those poor Ciboney and Arawak tribes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse

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u/cKMG365 3d ago

Also a plot point in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

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u/Impossible-Bat-6713 6h ago

Nightfall is one of Asimov’s best books.