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  2. Grahana - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Eclipses in mythology and culture - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. In many Indigenous cultures, a solar eclipse is more than a ...

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    The belief is pronounced on the Navajo Nation but not shared among all Indigenous cultures North, Central and South America that will be in the primary viewing path for the “ring of fire ...

  5. Tribal religions in India - Wikipedia

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    The term "Hindu" is derived from Persian meaning "Indo" (or Indian), hence the official word "Hinduism" broadly refers to all the native cultures of the Indian subcontinent. The 1955 Hindu Marriage Act "[defines] as Hindus anyone who is not a Christian , Muslim , or Jew ".

  6. 'Celestial beings': Indigenous themes embedded in Austin art ...

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    The installation explicitly incorporates Indigenous perspectives on the eclipse. On April 8, the sun and the moon will align for the first total eclipse over the Austin area in more than 600 years.

  7. Sun and Moon (Inuit myth) - Wikipedia

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    Another version calls the brother aninga and the sister aleqa (meaning "older sister of a younger brother"). [10] Bernard Saladin D'Anglure gives the etymology that Aningaat/Aningaq means "favorite brother", from ani ("brother" when a male is addressed by his sister) and one of several synonymous suffixes -ngaq, -ngaat, -ngaaq ("favorite").

  8. Svarbhānu - Wikipedia

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    Rahu. Svarbhānu is described as an asura twice in the Family Books of the Rigveda. [2] Svarbhānu is described to strike Surya, overshadowing the sun with darkness. [3] Stella Kramrisch considers this act as portraying Svarbhānu as a deity greater than the Sun. [1] The Rigveda further narrates after this, the king of heaven - Indra struck down Svarbhānu and sage Atri found the hidden Sun ...

  9. What ancient civilizations thought of solar eclipses

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    The eclipse begins at 6:25p.m. EST, and the total eclipse starts at 7:34 p.m. EST. Total solar eclipses can inspire a certain amount of awe, but they're nothing to be scared of.