Eclipsing Moon

It is human nature if we expect something to happen. Sometimes we feel powerless against external factors that are too dominant. But we do not want to give up. Our last effort is to pray. Request hopefully on something that we think over everything. The story of the inhabitants of the same MADANG with us. Only we do not know whether the actions we pray only fantasy. We must be more advanced to know. But we've developed so far, following the spirit of Abraham, by removing the moon and the sun of our prayer focus to something intangible and can not be understood. Moreover, more advanced than this?

In elementary school we have in teaching that the moon is unusual heavenly bodies. He is the only natural satellite of the earth. We know that the human imagination to see the grandmother knitting nets into the moon. Geographical pattern of the surface of the moon, like a cloud, making our imagination. When switched his position if the earth to the moon, we still also be imagining something from continental distribution patterns and clouds. Perhaps we imagine a butterfly, a virgin or a caterpillar. We know much of the scientific efforts of scientists unravel the mysteries of the moon. They do not give up on the myth.

The discovery that the moon is the celestial bodies around the earth, gave an explanation of another phenomenon full of myth, solar eclipse. At the time we are given the primary explanation of the moon phases. And in the picture, we look at the full moon, the position of the moon lies between the earth and the sun. Similarly, during a lunar eclipse. I'm confused why can the same when the full moon eclipse and clearly different. Lunar eclipse happens when the full moon. But this explanation is not in elementary school science books. Then later we know that the moon's orbit is not exactly parallel to the earth's orbit. He tilted. At this side, the shadow of the earth is almost never appropriate to cover the moon. Sometimes above, sometimes below. Only when he was fit to cover the moon, the lunar eclipse occurs.

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Sun and Moon Worshipping in Ancient Times

Around the globe, diverse ethnic groups, in all continents, has a history of worship on the moon and sun. As a child, I could imagine that the moon and the sun is really the same, only changing form. This thought is quite complicated for a small child full of curiosity. I was fortunate to have the school library and from there I knew that the moon is a giant boulder and the sun was a giant ball of gas, a small star, just one of billions of stars scattered in the universe. If we already know how insignificant these two objects are, do we still want to worship him? When I was born in the early centuries BC, maybe I'll laugh at this fact, maybe I will curse the bearer of the facts, and still worship the moon and sun. I might think that the knowledge about the moon and the sun outside of reason and can not understand by human. We can only know what you want to show in the sky.

From a dry place in Yemen, thousands of years ago, there was a time where a great empire stood. Sheba who ruled as the queen, who reportedly seraphic beauty. Tales mention that at the time the animals can speak  to Solomon who was far away in the northern kingdom. If this is not a fairy tale, like the story of deer and crocodiles, what natural law  causes the animals currently no longer able to speak with us? Apart from that, people worship the sun Saba country. For the desert, the sun is very dominant. His influence was far more than the tropical community. We are in the hot arid nature, it is important to keep the temperature does not continue to increase and eventually burned and baked us. I think this is the reason for many of worship of the sun in the middle east and other desert areas. Noted there are 13 main sun gods in Arabia and Egypt.

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