An eclipse? LOL, we aren’t Aztecs anymore. We know that sometimes the moons orbital path intersects with the Sun’s ray’s casting a shadow on the Earth for a relatively short time. Wow, these people have gone absurdly superstitious.
99 years since the last one. 122 years until the next. You don't have to be an Aztec to want to participate in a rare event like that on our blessed soil.
The “gods” blocked the sun on May 28, 588 BC. Right in the middle of a big battle between the Medes and Lydians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Eclipse
Ever notice in APOCALYPTO a solar eclipse stops the sacrifices, yet the next day or so we see a full moon over Yucatan. I don’t think the moon was in the right place for a full moon at that time.
You are dissing the astronomy nerds among us. I’ll be traveling several hundred miles to view it.
The experience is said to be surreal. There is an “eclipse wind” that apparently happens under the shadow, where convection is turned on its head.