The Meeting of the Sun and Moon

0 Comments | April 15, 2009 at 8:57 am by mahud

As mentioned by Joseph Campbell (citing Classical scholar Gilbert Murray: Occidental Mythology p.162-163), in Homer’s Odyssey, there is found a grand celestial and mythic theme that mirrors the 19 year Metonic Cycle (the meeting of the sun and Moon). Yet the Odyssey pre-dates the discovery by the astronomer Meton (5th century BC), by well over […]