Unless the tribe was formed this year, they’ve probably seen them before.

They probably do get nervous. One of my favorite eclipse stories to read about is in Guna tradition in indigenous central America, where albinos, who are all said to descend from a single Zoroaster-like sage, are said to be imbued with magic powers from birth because they’re seen as being born of the moon. And when a solar eclipse happens, it’s up to them to decide if the Earth is worth saving from the dragon that’s eating the sun. The tradition lives on enough that almost half the population is albino as their popularity there was self-boosted in ancient times.

I wonder if this is the inspiration of the moon arc from Avatar.

I’ll go to North Sentinel Island and ask them. They seem chill.

uncontacted doesn’t mean uneducated

“Hey look. The sky balls lined up”

I have no academic basis for this but I kind of imagine any remaining uncontacted tribes are sort of mangled versions of the cultures they descended from. They’ve been kept small and isolated so their oral traditions may have become severely warped and may essentially be tiny ‘cult-of-personalities’ of a few people’s ideas that have very little similarity to more ancient traditions.

Like anything else that humans don’t understand now or didn’t understand then… We create a mythology to explain it.

As someone who has never ever seen an eclipse, not even a single time in my life, I have no idea how to answer the question.

This is why I hate being in Morocco.

There are still uncontacted tribes?