Dragones, profecías y ciencia: historia de nuestra fascinación por los eclipses
El hechizo de los eclipses nos acompaña desde hace milenios, de las referencias en petroglifos neolíticos hasta Tintín, pasando por la ‘Odisea’. Esta curiosidad ha venido acompañada de un hondo temor: que el día se convierta en noche se ha asociado a acontecimientos funestos. Recientemente los hemos pasado a contemplar como eventos naturales que no dejan de provocar uno de los sentimientos más…
The rare intersection of two major summer phenomena - the solar eclipse and the Odyssey - draws parallels that resonate with mass consciousness, thanks to Christopher Nolan's film. A passage from Homer's poem, adapted into a mass phenomenon through the film, hints at an astral occultation akin to the one we can expect on August 12th.
In the twenty-second Canto of the Odyssey, in the prologue to the massacre of the suitors vying for Odysseus' wife, an oracle named Teoclímeno utters a word amidst the general chaos to warn them of what awaits. The version of Carlos García Gual's translation of The Odyssey, published by Alianza in 2013, recounts: "I see blood-soaked walls and beautiful intercolumnia, and the atrium and courtyard overflow with ghosts, hastening towards Hades in darkness."
And this is where we find particularly relevant information: "And the Sun has been extinguished in the sky, and a malignant darkness has invaded us."
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