Elhardt
Obviously if something so major as to see the sun stop in the sky do to the earth's rotation changing happened, then we should expect to see other cultures also mention the event
Since Rrhain has taken care of the bulk of your points I will go to the above statement to explain that the sun stopping movement in the sky translates {in our modern knowledge of things} into the earth stopping its rotation. I had a post from many years ago wherein I gave a breakdown of the effects such an event would have.
sidlined writes:
Now it appears Tom is under some illusion of what is entailed in the physics behind a god stopping the earth and reversing the rotation.
Besides the fact that no other nation recorded this event,nor,I might add did they notice that the sun now came up on the horizon it used to set on.{Remember,the earth is never stated as being returned to its original spin.}
The earth rotates at 1000 mph at the equator. It rotates at about,say, 450 mph at the level of the Middle East.Now if you stop the earth all the people and animals and anything to varying degrees according to their composition and mass will still be rotating at 450 mph eastward.Mountains would move less as the shearing forces began to acquire sufficient energy to break and melt rock.
So basicly you would be sitting in your fields tending your sheep when you are suddenly find the ground beneath you grinding the flesh off your bones from the friction as you are now moving across it at 450 mph.The pain would be short lived as you quickly slam into a nearby hillside as it is turning into slag from the heat produced by inertial forces.Let us nor forget the wind at earths surface would now be experiencing similar disaster as it now moves at similar velocity along with you.The waters of the ocean are fluid so they would now be under some weird shifts since the gravitational forces are unbalaned towards the moon along with the surge as the oceans continued to move at the same speed.
It would be general chaos on a planetary scale.
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