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Funny, there's a Tintin story with the same setting but a different outcome in the temple of the sun comic https://i.pinimg.com/736x/12/98/cb/1298cb768ee8ba2efb
by johnchristopher 3y ago
Funny, there's a Tintin story with the same setting but a different outcome in the temple of the sun comic https://i.pinimg.com/736x/12/98/cb/1298cb768ee8ba2efbe1a117528740e8--superstition-tintin.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/12/98/cb/1298cb768ee8ba2efbe1a1175... and https://www.artcurial.com/sites/default/files/lots-images/2018-04-13-16/3376_10630190_0.jpg https://www.artcurial.com/sites/default/files/lots-images/20...
- topranks 3y agoIt’s also used in King Solomon’s Mines: https://www.coursehero.com/lit/King-Solomons-Mines/motifs/ https://www.coursehero.com/lit/King-Solomons-Mines/motifs/
- shiomiru 3y agoI remember it from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Apparently it has some historical basis, which would explain the popularity of this motif: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse#Observations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse#Obs...
- seszett 3y agoTintin was in Peru with the Inca though, not the Maya. Although maybe the Inca also knew how to calculate eclipses, I don't know.
- swores 3y agoIn the Tintin story he tricks them into thinking he could control the sun because they (the Incas in the story) didn't know about eclipses.