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“The Whole Moon was Eaten”: Southeast Asian Eclipse Calculation

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

One might classify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as “natural disasters”, whereas comets and eclipses might be described merely as “natural curiosities”. In earlier times, however, all were equally frightening, signs that the gods were angry.

A form of protection against eclipses was available, however, in the sense that prediction provided a means of countering the event. Consequently one main function of the astronomer/astrologer (henceforth “hora”) in his society was to warn his patron that the sky would darken and the birds stop singing at such and such a time on such and such a day.

Publiceringsår

1998

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

309-318

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Volym

29

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cambridge University Press

Ämne

  • Other Natural Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0022-4634