A stele of Babylonian king Nabonidus found at Ur showing Nabonidus and symbols for the Moon and Sun including a simple winged sun symbol inspired by a birdlike pattern that's perceivable in the Sun's corona during some total solar eclipses

Sequential photo of an annular eclipse

Composite photo of the July 1 1991 total solar eclipse

NASA Eclipse Atlas map of total and annular solar eclipse paths from 560 BCE to 540 BCE

Nabonidus' devotion to the #Babylonian Moon god Sin might have something to do with 1 #TotalSolarEclipse, & 2 #AnnularEclipses occurring above #Mesopotamia during his reign.

eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEat...

#AnnularEclipse: 559 BCE
#TotalEclipse: 557 BCE
Annular eclipse: 542 BCE

#Eclipsology

Getting back to annular eclipses, which you have compared to the eye of a leopard, I believe that some ancient people did 'see' aka perceive #AnnularEclipses as the eye of a feline sky god, to say nothing of an owl god. . .

The gold-orange ring does resemble the eyes of pumas-cougars and owls etc.