r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Dexter_Naman • 20h ago

Rare Devil Sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth

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u/Ibushi-gun 16h 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 15h 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 16h ago

Maybe they thought his God did it those times too

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u/3rdShiftSecurity 16h 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 14h 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 14h 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 13h 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