Eclipse

Manifestation

Solar Eclipses

During the "day" season, Stenza can observe Iradae and Lan'tha orbiting around each other in the sky, periodically eclipsing each other for five to six hours at a time. This has possibly given rise to An'o broadly but certainly to the dances done by pairs designed to mimic this movement. Additionally, roughly once every two years one of the moons eclipses one of the suns. However, the phenomenon of both moons eclipsing both suns is significantly rarer, occurring once every two hundred years above any given portion of the Mudeweian surface. The Stenza have only ever witnessed two of these occurrences, and have speculated wildly on what it could mean, whether it was an omen, or whether it had mythological or other divine significance.

Lunar Eclipses

Mudewei's two moons also periodically eclipse each other (on average once every four to seven years; this may have been the original timing of the Greater Pass practice of their children and young people pilgrimaging into the Frozen Wastes to commemorate a local act of great bravery by that demographic during the Battle with the Stone Menace). The much smaller Artificial Moon passes in front of the lunar surfaces roughly once every eight years.
Once every two years, shortly before or after a solar eclipse, Mudewei casts its shadow on one of the moons. However, every two hundred years, the shadow of Mudewei falls on both moons simultaneously. It varies greatly where this can be perfectly viewed, but it is not regarded as ominous as the phenomenon's solar counterpart.

Type

Natural