{"id":738669,"date":"2026-08-15T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738669\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:02:08","slug":"solar-eclipse-in-the-south-west-pac-man-to-shinto-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738669\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse in the South West: Pac-man to Shinto myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlie described the atmosphere as &#8220;magical&#8221;, and said: &#8220;The kids haven&#8217;t stopped screaming and been dancing around since we&#8217;ve been here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some people marked birthdays and anniversaries during the eclipse, giving the evening a romantic significance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One young girl named Alice described the eclipse as brilliant, and said: &#8220;It kind of looks like Pac-man&#8221;, whilst another felt that the sun disappearing was &#8220;kind of scary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commander Dave Lee, Royal Navy Parachute Display Team, spent the event parachuting into Pendennis Castle at the beginning of the eclipse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee was one of five members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines jumping out of the small aircraft at about 6,000ft (1829m), before deploying their colourful canopies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee said: &#8220;It is really a once in a lifetime experience, you have a very real feeling of immediacy and freedom, and you get a great view.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Heathfield spent the event telling stories about the &#8220;rare&#8221; mythology surrounding eclipses, in particular, the story of Amano-Iwato &#8211; the Japanese goddess of the sun &#8211; who hid in a cave depriving the world of light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;I had to go all the way to Japanese Shinto mythology to find it&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie described the atmosphere as &#8220;magical&#8221;, and said: &#8220;The kids haven&#8217;t stopped screaming and been dancing around since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}