Wednesday, June 25, 2008

What Blind Homer Saw



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My Frontier Thesis said...

This reminds me of how Native Americans interpreted eclipses and astronomy in general. Comet Donati streaked across the Dakota Plains in 1858 (I believe the summer or autumn), and Henry Boller said the Sioux he was with interpreted it as a bad omen: some kind of bad war looming. Eclipses caused quite a few howls, too. If one read as many 19th century travel narratives as an mft, one could almost assemble an anthropological or historical conference paper around such a topic...

6/26/2008 8:44 PM

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