r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Dexter_Naman • 1d ago

Rare Devil Sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth

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u/WrongColorCollar 1d ago

MAN I bet some older cultures didn't take this kinda thing well.

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u/Jibber_Fight 1d ago

I always think of how utterly terrifying a total eclipse would’ve been for primitive people. No wonder religion was invented.

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u/3rdShiftSecurity 1d ago edited 14h ago

Isn't that how Columbus got the natives to cooperate?

Something like they didn't want to resupply or help him. So he said his God is better than their God and if they don't help him his God would take the sun away. He told them that because he knew there would be a solar eclipse soon so he gave them that long to comply.

So the eclipse happens natives, lose their shit rightfully so, and give him whatever he wanted.

Or something like that.

Edit: found the source. https://youtube.com/shorts/5cXdIx98LsU?si=j5BZSZGODt6GeHKf

Joe Rogan podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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u/Ibushi-gun 1d ago

A solar eclipse happens in 2-5 times a year in America, it did back then, too. I don't see how this could be true, tbh. Even the full ones happen around once every 18 months

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u/RissaCrochets 1d ago

Total eclipses are only seen in an area though, with other parts of the world getting partial eclipses or not seeing it at all, so it's likely most or all of the natives hadn't seen one before.

Plus even if they knew of eclipses they'd probably still freak if a strange invader told them a god was going to take the sun away if they don't comply by a certain time, and then when that time was up the sun went away.

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u/angelbelle 1d ago

Maybe they thought his God did it those times too

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u/3rdShiftSecurity 1d ago

He timed it juuuuust right!

Idk man I'm not presenting this as fact and I have no links.

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u/RecipeHistorical2013 1d ago

you gotta realize, the NA "natives" didnt have a written language.

humanity is where it is now as we can pass info to the next generation, compiling data over the generations

much harder to do that if your "knowledge" person dies and its all or mostly lost

same in sub saharan africa. its why (IN MY OPINION) they never left the stone age

then look at south americans, they had a written language, and also were at roman-levels of technology (aquaducts, some medicine, advanced maths) etc.

written word is why we have airplanes and satelites

same with egypt, its a pretty obvious causation link

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u/SpottedWobbegong 1d ago

Writing is important but many non writing cultures have complex oral histories sometimes going back hundreds of years so it's not like knowledge is lost.

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u/RecipeHistorical2013 1d ago

while thats well and good, have you ever heard of the children's game "telephone"?

and yah that knowledge is very much lost when one tribe genocides another, which happened a lot

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 11h ago

I mean, if they hadn't yet figured out the math of predicting them then that shit would absolutely convince you even if you'd seen an eclipse before.

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u/EastofGaston 1d ago

And to think they closed the department of education.

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u/3rdShiftSecurity 1d ago

I'm a 40 yr old man. Graduation Class of 03. Public High School educated in that very same Dept of Education. So they were right to do it? 🤣🤣🤣

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u/EastofGaston 1d ago

05’ represent! Who knows at this point.

But yeah, I saw an eclipse last year. It was so beautiful.

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u/Deaffin 1d ago

I have zero familiarity with your story, but I can tell you with 100% certainty it's bullshit.

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u/Ze120 22h ago

Not the Mayans =]

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u/GDOR-11 21h ago

how the hell did he know when an eclipse was gonna happen? they barely knew the exact geographical position of america

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u/TheWhaleAndPetunia 19h ago

Columbus was an idiot and thought he was 12,000 miles from where he was. Even if he had known about an eclipse and could predict it to the day, thay eclipse would have had to have been seen equally in China and in San Salvador.

Ita a White Victory Over The Savages myth

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u/3rdShiftSecurity 14h ago

Found the source:

https://youtube.com/shorts/5cXdIx98LsU?si=j5BZSZGODt6GeHKf

It was Joe Rogan podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson. So that's where I heard it.

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u/TheWhaleAndPetunia 10h ago

See there's your problem, listening to rogan.

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u/WoopsieDaisies123 1d ago

Definitely woulda been wild. It was pretty crazy even knowing what would happen, watching as everything started getting darker even though the sun still seemed to be shining just as bright, and then suddenly the sun goes out for a little bit.