My 'Space Oddities Live' Presentation 'Researching The Influence of Eclipses on Ancient Cultures'

About a month ago, I did a PowerPoint presentation on 'Space Oddities Live' titled 'Researching The Influence of Eclipses on Ancient Cultures'.

This PowerPoint presentation lasts for about 47 minutes and is followed by a questions period. The presentation begins at just after 19 minutes into the embedded video below. I have added links to specific segments of the presentation below this embedded video of the whole 'Space Oddities Live' show if you want to jump to specific subjects. This presentation is an overview of over three decades worth of my Cultural Eclipsology research into how eclipses, especially total solar eclipses, influenced ancient humanity's religious beliefs aka mythology, as well as religious iconography and symbolism. I actually left out a few fairly important perceptions of or apparent responses to solar eclipses, such as the quite common myth that the Sun and Moon are "making love" during solar eclipses, and my hypothesis that the Nazca Lines, especially the biomorph geoglyphs, were an ancient response to multiple total solar eclipses that took place above southern Peru during the time period that the geoglyphs were created.  

Beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=1159s

Dowth petroglyph "eye of God":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=1232s

 

The Phoenix myth inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=1394s

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot astronomical drawing of 1878 total solar eclipse and Edward Walter Maunder's hypothesis that the winged sun symbols of Assyria, Mesopotamia and Egypt were inspired by total solar eclipses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=1499s

Winged eye symbol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=1981s

A "great big smile in the sky":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2017s

The mythical sun-eating eclipse serpent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2086s

The dragon variation of the mythical sun-eating eclipse serpent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2137s

Solar prominences as "tongues of flame" - Aztec calendar - gorgons - Bes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2318s 

The anthropomorphized "Sun god":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2434s

The frequency of total solar eclipses above one location:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2479s

 Xavier Jubier's Neolithic (-5500 to -2000) Solar Eclipses Database maps and solar eclipse path calculation issues (and internet connection - audio issues):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2538s

 

Loughcrew's "Equinox Stone" (internet connection - audio issues):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2675s

Annular eclipse "solar bull" horns (internet connection - audio issues):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2748s

The "sun flower" perception of total solar eclipses and the flower-like rosette symbol as a solar symbol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2888s

Mary Cahill lunula solar boat annular eclipse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=2992s

Knowth basin sun-moon conjunction symbol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=3063s 

 

Was Khepri aka Kephera a total solar eclipse scarab god?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=3126s

 

Solar boat with "upturned crescent moon" misspeak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=3204s

Solar cross:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=3441s

Total lunar eclipse "Blood Moon" perception:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=3690s

Winnemucca Lake "Sun flower" petroglyph and conclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_ftcLiR18&t=3844s