The Sun turns red twice every day at rising and setting
times, but few people notice it. It is a routine phenomenon. However, people
whose ancestors were convinced that certain remarkable events in their lives
were related to the Sun still worship the rising and setting Sun irrespective
of its color. To me the Sun and the Moon symbolize thermodynamics and Optics or
heat and pure light in simple English.
The Moon does not emit any light, cold or hot. It just
reflects some of the light that impinges on its surface. If it reflects direct
sunlight, it looks white with patches of grey. When it is illuminated by light
reflected from Earth’s surface (oceans) it looks bluish. When it is illuminated
by light reflected from the Martian surface, it looks reddish. The changing
colors of the moon have nothing to do with terrestrial economics or politics.
Astronomy is a subject of study as ancient as nutrition and
herbal medicine. The first astrolabes are said to have been built in Greece and
Egypt before the dawn of the Christian era and the Muslim Spaniards and
Iranians of about a thousand years ago had developed fairly scientific
astrolabes and Celestial globes. It was just a matter of how much time one
spent fingering his astrolabe to predict the celestial events of the future.
Even a thousand year ago it could be calculated as to when the Earth, Moon and
Mars will be in the required positions relative to the Sun to produce the Blood
Moon effect by reflection of light from moon which was originally sunlight
reflected by Mars.
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