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Top 10 Crazy Ways Ancient Civilizations Explained A Solar Eclipse

4 Mongolian

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In Mongolian legend, there exists a monster named Arakho who has a terrible hunger for hair. Legend states that humans were once covered in hair, but Arakho devoured most of it, leaving humans to look much like we do today.

The gods saw this as their power waning and ordered the Sun and Moon to make them an immortality potion. However, Arakho heard of the potion and stole it. Before he could drink most of it, his head was cut from his body. Despite this obvious setback, he had consumed enough water to keep his head alive.

In anger, he now hunts the Sun and Moon and devours them. But because he has no body, they simply fall out of his neck. Whenever a solar eclipse happens, Arakho has managed to hunt down the Sun.

 

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