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Babylonian scholars and common people viewed solar and lunar eclipses differently. Scholars viewed eclipses as signs that could be interpreted according to established rules, sometimes seeing them as favorable omens. Common people saw eclipses as calamitous events requiring rituals to ward off evil. In reality, the two perspectives were often blended, with eclipses simultaneously seen as omens and events necessitating rituals. Eclipses were recorded and their meanings analyzed in Babylonian astrological tex
- Author
- Ana Paula Rodrigues
- Language
- EN