Robin Edgar Wrote:
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> These eclipse path maps will be
> very useful to any and all eclipsologists who,
> like me, are interested in investigating the
> influence of solar eclipses on the religious
> beliefs and practices, and religious art and
> iconography, of diverse ancient cultures.


I find this to be a relatively useless methodology you are employing. You're working from the conclusion... that the eclipses had an effect... and then hunting for an effect that might have been predicated upon your eclipses.

Instead, I suggest you look for specific cultural references to eclipses and then find out if there was a concentration of eclipses at the time in question. Anything else will only lead you further from an understanding of the culture you are investigating... not closer to it. You are superimposing your worldview onto theirs, eclipsing theirs (if you'll pardon the pun) in the process.

Because you find eclipses to be dynamic and exciting does not mean that they found them to be influential. An eclipse can come and go on a cloudy day and nobody will even notice.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.