Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast

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Coyote Arranges the Seasons
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• But Winter was not satisfied. He though he should control a longer part of the year than Summer controlled. So he and his four brothers challenged Summer and his four brothers to a wrestling match. Winter won, and all the Summer brothers were killed. The earth was very cold for a long time.
  
  But one of the Summer brothers left a baby son. His mother and grandmother took the child south to live. When the baby grew to boyhood, he often asked about his father. But his mother would not answer him. "Where is my father?" he would ask. But his mother would not reply.
  
  She encouraged him to become strong. Every day he took a sweat bath in the sweat lodge, so that he would obtain the power of heat. From the sweat bath he plunged into the river, so that he would obtain the power of cold. When he became a young man, he was very strong and had his special helpers the powers of heat and cold. One day he said to his mother, "I think I am prepared to meet anyone and anything."
  
  His mother was glad. "Now I will tell you about your father," she said. And she told him also about the wrestling match between the five Winter brothers and the five Summer brothers.
  
  Her story made the young man eager for revenge, and he challenged the five Winter brothers to a wrestling match. One at a time he fought them. He overcame the oldest brother and cut off his head. He overcame the second brother and cut off his head. The third and the fourth Winter brothers also he killed. But he let the youngest one remain alive.
  
  "Because you are so young," the young man said, "I will let you live. We will share the year between us. You will be in power half of the time, and I will be in power half of the time."
  
  And that is the way it has been ever since.

~Clark, Ella E., Indian Legends of the Northern Rockies. 1966.

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Earlier in this topic I shared an extraordinary discovery of the Native American artistic tradition and legend called "Raven Steals the Sun."

For me finding this art was a life-changing moment. The reason is because for many years I had read the legends of the Indian tribes in North America and had always understood the fire that Raven stole to be none other than domestic fire. When the people were cold, the Raven-- or some other venerated animal person-- had brought fire, and given it to the people of earth to keep warm, and "to bless our teepees" and lodges with light. This gift, occasionally but not often, was given with instructions for cooking food. That means that the legends of "the gift of fire" would appear to tie neatly into the figure of the "Culture Hero", who, according to anthropologists, teaches people some of the basic arts of civilization. In that sense, this all-present theme of the gift of fire in the Indian legends seemed to require no more thought.

But through the art of this NW tribe as showcased in a gorgeous little 30-yer-old paperback book, I discovered, instead of fire, a sphere, or sun, in the beak of the Raven. Also, the cold was not the cold of winter but of a longer period of low temperatures and loss of the growing seasons. The fire was not the fire of a hearth, but of a new sun replacing an older, dying sun.

As Wal Thornhill has it, the legends of extreme cold and heat are to be taken seriously, because many of these legends reflect a time during the capture of the Brown Dwarf Saturn into the Sun's influence. It was on this temporarily elliptical orbit that the earth was subject a period of scorching heat and then to a period of prolonged cold, before it settled into its present-day orbit. I have been able on this topic to add beautifully told, complete legends from several NW Tribes which illustrate the events as recalled by the Nez Perce, Kwakiutl Northwest Tribe, and the Wasco Indians.

This inquiry also relates to the plasma sheet and glowing coma that were blazing in the sky and changing the landscape during capture. Earth's cargo of life may have been saved by the electrical inputs at this time. The worldwide plasma petroglyphs are the key to understanding the high energy plasma discharges witnessed by the ancients.

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Now since this entire topic began with the visual arts of a Northwest Native American tribe, I will share that looking at the handmade objects of each of the tribes at the same time as reading the legends has become quite an eye-opening pursuit, for me. It's been a great experience. As has been said, "There are so many different directions you can go with the Electric Universe!"

It really impresses me that so many of the tribal artistic creations are geometric in form. I have now come to ask whether the plasma petroglyphs make up many of the repeating patterns within the Native American designs, as they are handed down through generation after generation of clans, tribes and nations. Could it be that the geometric and abstract nature of the design itself argues for a plasma instability/petroglyph origin? Occasionally, these geometric forms are even directly linked to the legends. For example, the Twin Sons of Changing Woman, who killed all of the giant monsters with lightning (and turned some to stone) in order to make the world safe for the Indians to live in, are depicted in sand paintings as a pair of Squatterman Petroglyph shapes.

Now regarding the Nez Perce legend I just shared called "Coyote Arranges the Seasons," we see many of the celestial themes and dramas in the sky involving a change of Suns, and period of extended cold and of scorching heat. I spent a few very rewarding hours looking at as many Nez Perce handcrafted items as I could find. I thought, "Oh, it's a lot of incredible colors, diamonds and triangles." But something kept bothering me about them. See what you think.

Here are two examples.
https://ibb.co/20QXYqrF
https://ibb.co/1KVgQHT

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The background for the Squatterman Plasma Petroglyph is in the following paper:

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE, VOL. 31, NO. 6, DECEMBER 2003
Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current,
Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity
Anthony L. Peratt, Fellow, IEEE

There is a Part II, also.

On youtube, this channel has a nice reading of the paper, and in the link I have set it to the Squatterman or twin Champaigne glass plasma instability that was spanning the sky and recorded in rock:

• Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity
  https://youtu.be/EoVW542kXuw?si=ZQknzlNXoiYVL-cz&t=2713
  CH: Electric Universe Eyes

Other patterns of high energy plasma discharge instabilities are the plasma Separatrix, the stack of plasma toroids, etc.. The paper compares these forms with petroglyphs around the world.

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In the handsome antique Nez Perce corn husk bags, I thought the Squatterman Plasma Form was expressed in the negative space of the design!

Of course I won't insist on it or press the point. Someone could say it's just a personal interpretation or a subjective perception.

But the beautiful design and colors certainly in my mind emphasize the central column of the Squatterman Plasma formation.

It was a bit frightening when I saw it. When we talk about these formations, it is so easy to forget that the radiation from these plasma formations or high current z-pinch auroras was harmful to life, and often lethal. I think the Nez Perce designs emphasize the power radiating and the danger of this period of extreme plasma discharges in the sky.