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French Jesuits observing an eclipse with King Narai and his court in April 1688, shortly before the Siamese revolution. The periodicity of lunar eclipses been deduced by Neo-Babylonian astronomers in the sixth century BCE [6] and the periodicity of solar eclipses was deduced in first century BCE by Greek astronomers, who developed the Antikythera mechanism [7] and had understood the Sun, Moon ...
Bulan (Pangasinense mythology): the merry and mischievous moon god, whose dim palace was the source of the perpetual light which became the stars; guides the ways of thieves [11] Wife of Mangetchay (Kapampangan mythology): wife of Mangetchay who gave birth to their daughter whose beauty sparked the great war; lives in the Moon [ 12 ]
An eclipse is classified as either as Suryagrahana (Sūryagrahaṇam), a solar eclipse, or a Chandragrahana (Candragrahaṇam), a lunar eclipse in Hindu literature. [ 2 ] Beliefs surrounding eclipses are regarded by scholars to be closely associated with Vedic deities, and were significant in both astrology and astronomy.
Earendel, god of rising light and/or a star; Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess; Freyr, god of sunshine, among other things; Sól, goddess and personification of the sun; Teiwaz, as a reflex of *Dyeus, was probably originally god of the day-lit sky; Thor, god of lightning, thunder, weather, storms, and the sky
Like many of Khonsu’s manifestations, Khonsu-Neferhotep was venerated as a moon god who traversed the night sky on the lunar bark, journeying between the mythical mountains of Bakhu and Manu. In Egyptian cosmology, these mountains were believed to support the heavens and marked the entry and exit points of the underworld.
The original Proto-Indo-European lunar deity, *Meh₁not appears to have been male, with many possible derivatives including the Homeric figure of Menelaus. [citation needed] Cultures with male moon gods often feature sun goddesses. An exception is Hinduism and Philippine animism featuring both male and female aspects of the solar divine.
The lunar eclipse and the red Moon appeared on schedule, and the indigenous people were impressed and frightened. The son of Columbus, Ferdinand, wrote that the people: with great howling and lamentation came running from every direction to the ships laden with provisions, praying to the Admiral to intercede with his god on their behalf...
Set (Egyptian mythology) Nzazi (god of thunder and lightning; master of thunder dogs in Kongo mythology) Azaka-Tonnerre (West African Vodun/Haitian Vodou) Mulungu; Xevioso (alternately: Xewioso, Heviosso. Thunder god of the So region) Amadioha (Igbo, Nigeria) Obuma (god of thunder, Ibibio-Efik Mythology, Nigeria) Àlamei (So region)