In ancient Egypt, historians say, they had a sun god named Amon, or Re. This god, they believed, was in charge of moving the sun in a barge. One beautiful day when the sun was high it suddenly disappeared from the sky. It was, we now think, an eclipse of the sun, a common event as the heavens are run. But the people on earth then were filled with fear that the sun god had left and the end was near. The Egyptians, of course, had no way to know that what actually happened was simply so: Old Re in the pilot house’s cramped condition just wanted to stretch and to change his position. So he stopped for a minute behind the moon. That’s all it was when it darkened at noon. Yet folks were in panic, kids, women and men. Tough time they had, and no CNN!
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