What did life in South Central Texas and the Hill Country look like over 600 years ago?
in 2023 and a partial eclipse in 2017. But a total solar eclipse? That’s a rarity. In fact, the last time the path of a total solar eclipse passed through the area we know as “San Antonio” was back in May of 1397 — 627 years ago!Think of San Antonio’s history. What do you think about? Probably the Alamo and other Spanish missions. But this last total eclipse happened hundreds of years before the Spanish colonized the area.
Hicks adds, “We have talked about Historic Texas as having 11,000 streams, so the water would have been plentiful, a little bit different from today. We’re struggling with that in drought , but water would have been plentiful. It would have been a bit greener.
However, Ramón Vásquez, executive director of the American Indians in Texas at Spanish Colonial Missions says, “What we’re learning today is that it was just the opposite. It was a veryAnd it’s with that level of sophistication that the Coahuiltecans would be experiencing the eclipse in 1397. We can speculate that it would have been a spiritual event, too.
In fact, there’s evidence of the Spanish using these beliefs in converting locals at Mission Concepción. In one of the rooms at the Mission, there is a fresco that shows the sun and the moon together. In the middle of the two is a very Spanish face — complete with a fancy mustache and goatee. In this way, the Franciscan friars were symbolizing that their god - Jesus - was the true God, more important than the sun and moon.
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