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Total eclipse shows ancient shroud By ROBERT SCHEYER Of the Emerald At approximately 8:13 on the morning of Feb. 26, the moon’s shadow will touch the Pacific Coast near Astoria and sweep up the Columbia River like a giant wave. Inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest will have the good for tune of seeing the last total eclipse of the sun on the North American continent this century. For most, the total eclipse will be a once in-a-lifetime experience. Day will turn suddenly into night. Summer constellations will peek out and chickens will go to roost. And as suddenly as dark ness fell, light will return. People who have witnessed a total eclipse (when the sun’s face is obscured by the moon) say an eerie feeling comes over them. Records of ancient civilizations show the totality of the occurr ence, shrouded in superstitions and religious rites. To early man, a total eclipse carried the significance of life, for if light was lost, so was existence. Antique races believed the sun was being swallowed by a mon ster and something bad was im minent. The Shinto religion ordained that at the time of an eclipse cer tain jewels, regarded as amulets, should be suspended from the highest branches of the sacred tree Cleyera. The jewels’ bril liance suggested the light of the sun which was to be restored. The ancient Chinese thought a dragon was feeding on the sun and beat drums and fired arrows to scare away the beast. The Chinese ruler was thought to cor respond to the sun and the eclipse was regarded as a threat from God to the emperor. The Assyrians of Babylon be lieved the spirit influence of the seven accursed brothers caused eclipses. How to thwart these brothers is described in a charm’ that said, “We go on our hands, so that we may eat flesh and we crawl upon our hands, so that we may drink blood.” The Armenians of Iran thought two dark bodies, offspring of a BRITISH COLUMBIAX ALBERTA SASKATCHEWAN MANITOBA Banff Vancouver • Saskatoon Calgory V • Penticton \ S*l —Cranbrook/ /34v*Everett • ( '^^c^0mo*WASHINGTO/7^0i ilpifl^L^^SWena tehee / / iileosbunjerrS^i. . £oet/r d' Aiene TAeOolftTr^Sde^rftLewiii 4v; Pefncfitfis*^' Lethbridge Regina Afct/deert OaooJLn Moose Jaw Weyboro :Esfie«rdri.: Brand Ob: .Saleih Mlssbulq •Oreof FoU, Helena. «• Eugene oos Boy OREGON j-ewrttowri:' iMQN TANA ^ Bu t he / Bismarck Miles City / NORTH DAKOTA •Burns •Klamnlh Polls AfiniSfl primeval ox (an evil star), passed between the sun and the Earth. It was, moreover, a popular belief that a sorcerer using witchcraft could bring down these dark bodies from heaven. In Egypt the king would walk ceremonially (and sunwise) around the temple. In early North American history many cultures attached sexual connotations to a total eclipse. The Alaskan Tlingits thought an eclipse occurred when the female moon visited her husband the sun. Among the Eskimos was the belief that the sun and moon are brother and sister who commit incest dur ing an eclipse. Among Indian tribes, an eclipse meant great peril and most prom ised to lead better lives. They would try to scare off whatever was blocking the sun with loud noises that included beating and twisting dogs’ ears to make them squeal. The Yukon Indians who thought an unclean emanation descended during the eclipse, turned over their pots and pans and wouldn’t come outside. The general populace of early middle America believed the sun was fighting with the earth or that a Jaguar was devouring the sun. Many groups thought that preg nant women who gaze at an ec lipse would give birth to a harelip ped child. On Feb. 26, you can find out what significance a total eclipse has to modem man. 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