JAMAICA WITH IRIE
The most HISTORIC ECLIPSE in JAMAICA.
I captured the most historic eclipse in Jamaica, which happened on 14 March 2025. The reason why this eclipse is so significant is that it mirrors the eclipse that Christopher Columbus is said to have used in 1504 to trick the indigenous people of Jamaica into believing he had godlike powers, which, in turn, became one of the events that shaped Jamaican history.
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I decided to check if that story with Columbus and the Taíno actually happened, how we know about it, and whether it is true that in March 2025, we experienced the same Total Lunar Eclipse as the Taino and the Spanish experienced on 1 March 1504?
🔴 CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:18 Columbus and his voyages to Jamaica
03:14 What is "the Columbus Eclipse"?
04:27 Is "the Columbus Eclipse" story true?
07:42 Total Lunar Eclipse 1504 vs 2025
10:16 Capturing the Eclipse from Kingston, Jamaica
🔴 REFERENCES:
► NASA CATALOGUE
This is where you can find ALL Lunar Eclipses from 2000 BC to 3000 AD. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpubs/5MCLE.html
► Fernando Colón. "Historia del Almirante Don Cristóbal Colón" (In Spanish)
(The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus).
https://archive.org/details/historiadelalmir02col/page/228/mode/2up
This is a free version of the book, can copy-paste parts to ChatGPT to translate to English
believed to have been written by his younger son Hernando Colón between 1537 and 1539.
The work was originally printed in Venice , Italy , in 1571.
► Fernando Columbus "The life of the admiral Christopher Columbus" (In English)
This book is in English, but has a limited preview.
https://archive.org/details/lifeofadmiralchr00colo
It can be bought here:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Admiral-Christopher-Columbus-Ferdinand/dp/0813518016
► Johannes Regiomontanus, Candarium and ephemerides, 1500
This is a manuscript copy of the astronomical tables that Columbus had with him in Jamaica and used to predict the Eclipse. The book is called "Calendarium and Ephemerides" and has the exact view as published by Johannes Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg) in 1474. https://archive.org/details/ljs300/mode/2up
► Bartolomé de las Casas "Historia de las Indias"
https://archive.org/details/historiadelasind15casa_1/page/28/mode/2up
This is where the story about the Columbus Eclipse is also mentioned, but in a form of a quote from Fernando Columbus's book.
► Mártir de Anglería. De orbe novo decades, 1516 (Latin version)
https://archive.org/details/ARes593133/mode/2up
This is where you can learn about Taino practices recorded by the Spaniards.
https://archive.org/details/ARes593133/page/n21/mode/2up
See page 21, type "luna" in search to see the required line, then copy-paste a paragraph with this word in latin into ChatGPT and ask for translation to English. You will see that the text in latin explicitly states that the Cibao mountain inhabitants (modern day Hispaniola) measured time in "lunas", which suggests that they were using the Moon as a reference for their calendar. This aligns with the idea that the Taíno and other indigenous groups used a lunar calendar, tracking time based on lunar cycles rather than the European solar system.
Also page 81
https://archive.org/details/ARes593133/page/n81/mode/2up
says that the indigenous people had a time system using lunar months, marking October, November, and December in connection with the Moon. A tribute system was established according to these months.
► Eclipse science
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/eclipse/eclipsecycles_cycles.htm
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-march-2025-total-lunar-eclipse/
► More about Saros and Hyper Saros
Also comparing 13-14 March 2025 Eclipse and 1 March 1504
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adb30d/ampdf
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Published Mar 14, 2025
