Creation Myths

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://mythopedia.info/aurora.html


This idea rests on the combination of two independent theories:

1. Plasma experiments have revealed that an increased solar wind would produce an aurora in the form of a high-current z-pinch or Birkeland current undergoing complex instabilities that are only recently beginning to be understood and analysed.
2. Independently from this, specialist studies in the humanities – including archaeology, mythology, anthropology, and the history of art, astronomy, religion and literature – led to the view that human 'memories' of creation, as enshrined in numerous ancient myths, rituals and art forms, present a remarkable uniformity worldwide, allowing the reconstruction of a detailed chronological sequence of 'creation events' that were arguably observed in the sky. If human traditions of this sort are allowed to speak for themselves rather than straightjacketed into Jungian, Frazerian or Durkheimian paradigms, an economic explanation is that people from many parts of the earth witnessed a stupendous pillar of light reaching from the horizon to the highest region of the sky – the so-called axis mundi or 'cosmic axis', that defined the apparent 'centre' of the sky and blotted out the comparatively dim light of the moon, the stars, and even the sun.


An ambitious interdisciplinary research programme combines these data sets – the plasma-physical theory of an intense auroral pillar and the mythological theory of creation, centred on the axis mundi. The scientific possibility that such an auroral pillar was observed at some time during the Holocene implies an attractive explanation for the 'protomyth' derived from the comparative study of mythology and ancient cosmologies. It seems possible that spectacular events transpiring in that 'alien sky' inspired many defining forms of religion, art, and architecture, the remnants of which are still with us today. These forms could have been faithfully recorded on stone in thousands of petroglyphs all over the world, enacted in thousands of rituals celebrated until the present day, and narrated in scores of myths now baffling scholars and laymen alike. During intervening and subsequent centuries, the sky could have remained filled with debris, and only in the 1st millennium BCE would it have cleared up sufficiently for planetary astronomy to emerge and for modern philosophy to embark on 'sanitising' the traditional mindset.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "I, for one, welcome our new Creation Myth Overlords." - Percy Plasma

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Well then....

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-mythology-of-the-world-axis-exploring-the-role-of-plasma-in-world-mythology/4659993


Towards the end of the Stone Age, the sky was ablaze with awe-inspiring forms not seen today. Dominant among these was a towering, life-like pillar of light stretching from near the horizon to high up into space - the tree of life, the world mountain, the ladder to heaven. This message is heard in virtually every ancient society on earth, but while this 'world axis' is familiar enough to scholars, little sense could be made of the stories. The most conspicuous feature of the ancient cosmologies also remained the most elusive. From a modern scientific perspective, such traditional accounts no longer sound preposterous. Our growing knowledge of devastating events in recent earth history substantiates the possibility that prehistoric people witnessed a violent and prolonged display of high-energy auroras. This colourful book is an edited slideshow intended as an accessible 'appetiser' for a forthcoming monograph about traditions of the world axis.

[SpiralHawk]

3. I'm totally into the Tree of Life

[Delphinus]

6. That

is an absolutely *gorgeous* tree!!

[Fumesucker]

4. I donate plasma on a regular basis..

It is used to make a number of life saving medications..

Oh.. Wait..

[Toots]

5. No one mentioned spaghetti.

:shrug: