I work hard not to believe. Belief is the enemy of knowledge and to objective study of any kind.

Instead i work to know, or acutely recognize that i do not.

In the case of the eclipse, or the workings of the sun in general - i do not know, though i am certain that what we are taught today about it is as stupid and unscientific as its first incarnation taught in the 19th century (that the sun is a giant fart, perpetually on fire in the sky).

The "it's all an astronomical coincidence" "theory" for the moon and sun just happening to be the perfect size to cover one another (especially in the belief system where they are astronomically distant and wildly different sizes) was always notably stupid and unscientific.