New Delhi
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, June 10: World set to witness the first solar eclipse of 2021, an annular solar eclipse, wherein the Sun appears like a ring of fire on Thurday. The phenomenal celestial event takes place when the moon comes in between the earth and the sun, leaving the sun’s visible outer edges to form a “ring of fire” or annulus around the moon.
What did Eclipse mean to different cultures?
Most cultures viewed it as a period during which the sun or the moon is being attacked by an animal or a demon.
Vikings, Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese and many others imagined an animal eating the sun and excreting the sun from the other end. They used to think that there is a great animal in the sky. To threaten the animal, people even pelted stones at animals on earth, made noises, used drums to scare the demons run away.
In India, skygazers can see a very small part of…
