by Brigit » Sat May 31, 2025 7:23 pm
We are looking at two-dimensional Indian art, stories with unusual visual references, and legends of the earth having been on an elliptical orbit, causing periods of heat and of extended cold.
In the Kwakiutl Indian legend (above) of "Mink, Son of the Sunshine" as told by Chief Wallas, there is more than an illustration of a pair of suns and an elliptical orbit.
One of the characters in the celestial drama of changing suns shoots a chain of arrows toward the sky, or perhaps toward another object in the sky. He is able to ascend on the chain of arrows.
The chain of arrows is preserved in many Indian Legends, not just in the northwest. Rens van der Sluijs has written about the Chain of Arrows in "Shots in the Dark," Parts 1&2.
- Shots in the Dark Part One
Mar 25, 2011
The mythical landscape is replete with structures alien to the familiar terrestrial environment today.
- https://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011 ... 25tube.jpg
Striations in an electrical discharge tube filled with hydrogen. The left portion is 45.7 centimetres long, the right one 44.4 centimetres. The small tube terminates in a point, the large one in a ring. In the image on top, the point is positively charged, producing 62 disc-shaped strata in the small tube and 12 saucer-shaped ones in the large one. Below, the point is negatively charged, producing 54 disc-shaped strata in the small tube and 13 saucer-shaped ones in the large one. The strata in the small tube were blue, but at times, with a large current, carmine. Copied from photographs, obtained in respectively 15 and 10 seconds. © Warren de la Rue and Hugo W. Müller, 1878
...Countless myths tell how one or a group of mythical beings brought this curious formation into being, usually in the bygone days of "creation." For example, the Kaurna tribe, of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia, told that a certain Monana “was one day throwing large spears in various directions, east, west, north, south; when, having thrown one upwards, it did not return to the earth. He then threw another, and another, and so continued throwing; each spear sticking fast to the former one until they reached the ground …”
The lowest segment, required to link the formation to the surface of the earth, tends to be described as crescentic in form, such as a hook, a bow or the upper half of a bird’s beak. Thus, in traditions from the Kutenai, of Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, “a chain of arrows” is formed by the primordial animals, “which Raven completes by putting his beak in the nock of the last arrow.”
- Shots in the Dark Part Two
Mar 28, 2011
The previous Picture of the Day described several of the many myths that refer to a celestial chain of arrows or a celestial ladder. It asked, how is this theme to be explained?
- https://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011 ... 8tubes.jpg
Experimental results obtained in 1879 when conducting electricity through rarefied gases in a vacuum tube and modulated by a magnetic field. From left to right, the tube is filled with nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and tin(IV) chloride. The positive electrode is on top. The tube with nitrogen produced a spiral, the one with carbon dioxide a set of nine stacked toroids embracing a Y-shaped column. (c) John Rand Capron.
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We are looking at two-dimensional Indian art, stories with unusual visual references, and legends of the earth having been on an elliptical orbit, causing periods of heat and of extended cold.
In the Kwakiutl Indian legend (above) of "Mink, Son of the Sunshine" as told by Chief Wallas, there is more than an illustration of a pair of suns and an elliptical orbit.
One of the characters in the celestial drama of changing suns shoots a chain of arrows toward the sky, or perhaps toward another object in the sky. He is able to ascend on the chain of arrows.
The chain of arrows is preserved in many Indian Legends, not just in the northwest. Rens van der Sluijs has written about the Chain of Arrows in "Shots in the Dark," Parts 1&2.
[list][b]Shots in the Dark Part One[/b]
Mar 25, 2011
The mythical landscape is replete with structures alien to the familiar terrestrial environment today.
[list]https://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011/image11/110325tube.jpg
Striations in an electrical discharge tube filled with hydrogen. The left portion is 45.7 centimetres long, the right one 44.4 centimetres. The small tube terminates in a point, the large one in a ring. [b]In the image on top, the point is positively charged, producing 62 disc-shaped strata in the small tube and 12 saucer-shaped ones in the large one. Below, the point is negatively charged, producing 54 disc-shaped strata in the small tube and 13 saucer-shaped ones in the large one.[/b] The strata in the small tube were blue, but at times, with a large current, carmine. Copied from photographs, obtained in respectively 15 and 10 seconds. © Warren de la Rue and Hugo W. Müller, 1878[/list]
...Countless myths tell how one or a group of mythical beings brought this curious formation into being, usually in the bygone days of "creation." For example, [b]the Kaurna tribe, of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia,[/b] told that a certain Monana “was one day throwing large spears in various directions, east, west, north, south; [b]when, having thrown one upwards, it did not return to the earth. He then threw another, and another, and so continued throwing; each spear sticking fast to the former one until they reached the ground …[/b]”
The lowest segment, required to link the formation to the surface of the earth, tends to be described as crescentic in form, such as a hook, a bow or the upper half of a bird’s beak. Thus, in traditions from the Kutenai, of Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, “a chain of arrows” is formed by the primordial animals, “which Raven completes by putting his beak in the nock of the last arrow.”[/list]
[list][b]Shots in the Dark Part Two[/b]
Mar 28, 2011
[b]The previous Picture of the Day described several of the many myths that refer to a celestial chain of arrows or a celestial ladder. It asked, how is this theme to be explained?[/b]
[list]https://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011/image11/110328tubes.jpg
Experimental results obtained in 1879 when conducting electricity through rarefied gases in a vacuum tube and modulated by a magnetic field. From left to right, the tube is filled with nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and tin(IV) chloride. The positive electrode is on top. [b]The tube with nitrogen produced a spiral, the one with carbon dioxide a set of nine stacked toroids embracing a Y-shaped column.[/b] (c) John Rand Capron.[/list][/list]
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