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Old 28-March-2007, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Donnie B. View Post
I have to wonder: did these rituals develop before or after eclipses became predictable? I would suspect the former, since once it became possible to predict them they would no longer hold much mystery or occult power.

So, could these rituals be holdovers from ancient times when eclipses were not understood?
These superstitions are followed by Hindus. I am a Hindu myself and I know it is a very old religion and these superstitions have existed from the ancient times.
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