Maya nobility carried out bloodletting sacrifices to enhance a ‘passing away’ sun god throughout solar eclipses
El Castillo pyramid lit up during the night under a stellar sky in Chichen Itza, Mexico, among the biggest Maya cities. (Image credit: Matteo Colombo/DigitalVision by means of Getty Images)
We reside in a light-polluted world, where streetlamps, electronic advertisements and even yard lighting block out all however the brightest celestial things in the night sky. Travel to a formally secured "Dark Sky" location, look skyward and be impressed.This is the view of the paradises individuals had for centuries. Pre-modern societies enjoyed the sky and developed cosmographies, maps of the skies that supplied info for calendars and farming cycles. They likewise produced cosmologies, which, in the initial usage of the word, were religions to describe deep space. The gods and the paradises...