

During Ms. Saotome's rather-unhinged rant about the end of the world towards
the beginning of the **Rebellion** movie, she says the following:

> とある宗教の祭礼の日にあわせて、日食と月食が６回起こっちゃうという話です！
>
> I'm talking about how on the festival days of a certain religion, six solar
> and lunar eclipses will occur!

Is this a reference to a real-world practice, or is this some sort of weird
Madoka-universe eschatological thing?


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What is Ms. Saotome referring to in her rant about the end of the world?


After quite a lot of digging, I think I've figured out what's going on here.

Apparently, over the course of 2014 and 2015, there will be a series of four
lunar eclipses ("blood moons") and two solar eclipses that occur on Jewish
holy days.1 While the supposed eschatological consequences of this are not
entirely clear to me, they are apparently dire. As reported in [The Jewish
Press](http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/messianic-blood-moon-
rising-on-passover-seder/2013/10/06/):

> There will be a string of four "blood moons" in the year 5775 [i.e. 2014-15
> CE], and one of them will shine over the Passover seder. Whenever this
> happened in the past, enormous events took place in Jewish history.

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# Notes

1 For more information, see: [Red Moon
Rapture](http://www.redmoonrapture.com/2014-2015.html);
[FreeRepublic](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2010282/posts);
[The Jewish Press](http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/messianic-
blood-moon-rising-on-passover-seder/2013/10/06/).


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