(August 15, 2017 at 3:14 pm)Astonished Wrote: I was listening to NPR and heard them saying that Columbus used the Europeans' eclipse prediction method to trick the natives in the new world into continuing to feed and serve him until reinforcements from Europe arrived, threatening that he would make the sun vanish, and then went where no one could see him when the eclipse hit. The natives then did everything he asked. So on the occasion when an old-timey shaman or mystic managed to get something right, that's all they needed to trick entire civilizations into buying their shit.
Which island was that? Columbus never set foot on North or South America, IIRC.
