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❝a whirlwind came out of the north, a fire infolding itself; a brightness was about it in the midst of the sky❞
- ___"The green ghostly light seems suddenly to spring to life with rosy blushes. There is infinite suggestion in this phenomenon, and in that lies its charm; the suggestion of life, form, colour, and movement never less than evanescent, mysterious -- no reality. It is the language of mystic signs and portents -- the inspiration of gods -- wholly spiritual -- divine signalling. Remindful of superstition, provocative of imagination. Might not the inhabitants of some other world controlling might forces thus surround our globe with fiery symbols, a golden writing which we have not the key to decipher?" -- Robert Scott talking about the aurora in Antarctica in the winter of 1911
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___Taken from Wikipedia: Auroras, sometimes called the northern and southern lights or aurorae (singular: aurora), are natural light displays in the sky, usually observed at night and particularly in the polar regions. In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621. The northern lights have had a number of names throughout history. The Cree call this phenomenon the "Dance of the Spirits." In the Middle Ages the auroras have been called a sign from God.
___Auroras are associated with the solar wind, a flow of ions continuously flowing outward from the sun. The Earth's magnetic field traps these particles, many of which travel toward the poles where they are accelerated toward earth. Collisions between these ions and atmospheric atoms and molecules causes energy releases in the form of auroras appearing in large circles around the poles. Auroras are more frequent and brighter during the intense phase of the solar cycle when coronal mass ejections increase the intensity of the solar wind. Seen from space, these fiery curtains form a thin ring in the shape of a monk's tonsure.
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___"The ends of the land and sea are bounded by an immense abyss, over which a narrow and dangerous pathway leads to the heavenly regions. The sky is a great dome of hard material arched over the Earth. There is a hole in it through which the spirits pass to the true heavens. Only the spirits of those who have died a voluntary or violent death, and the Raven, have been over this pathway. The spirits who live there light torches to guide the feet of new arrivals.
This is the light of the aurora. They can be seen there feasting and playing football with a walrus skull. The whistling crackling noise which sometimes accompanies the aurora is the voices of these spirits trying to communicate with the people of the Earth. They should always be answered in a whispering voice. Youths dance to the aurora. The heavenly spirits are called selamiut, "sky-dwellers," those who live in the sky." -- Eskimo Legend___The Point Barrow Eskimos were the only Eskimo group who considered the aurora an evil thing. In the past they carried knives to keep it away from them. The Fox Indians, who lived in Wisconsin, regarded the light as an omen of war and pestilence. To them the lights were the ghosts of their slain enemies who, restless for revenge, tried to rise up again. The Salteaus Indians of eastern Canada and the Kwakiutl and Tlingit of Southeastern Alaska interpreted the northern lights as the dancing of human spirits. The Eskimos who lived on the lower Yukon River believed that the aurora was the dance of animal spirits, especially those of deer, seals, salmon and beluga. The East Greenland Eskimos thought that the northern lights were the spirits of children who died at birth. The dancing of the children round and round caused the continually moving streamers and draperies of the aurora.
___The Makah Indians of Washington State thought the lights were fires in the Far North, over which a tribe of dwarfs, half the length of a canoe paddle and so strong they caught whales with their hands, boiled blubber. The Menominee Indians of Wisconsin regarded the lights as torches used by great, friendly giants in the north, to spear fish at night. An Algonquin myth tells of when Nanahbozho, creator of the Earth, had finished his task of the creation, he traveled to the north, where he remained. He built large fires, of which the northern lights are the reflections, to remind his people that he still thinks of them.
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___People all over the world know of the mysterious lights in the sky which shift and glow according to their own whims. Delicate conditions allow for these extraordinary sights to grace the skies and enchant our hearts as the mystic paintbrush runs across the heavens. After the great storm however, the mystics seem to be unable to solidify their paint into the usual spectral glow. All over, people have begun to notice a dripping of the Aurora, the vibrant pale colors slipping from the canvas of the night in transformation from light to liquid.
___People all over the world know of the mysterious lights in the sky which shift and glow according to their own whims. Delicate conditions allow for these extraordinary sights to grace the skies and enchant our hearts as the mystic paintbrush runs across the heavens. After the great storm however, the mystics seem to be unable to solidify their paint into the usual spectral glow. All over, people have begun to notice a dripping of the Aurora, the vibrant pale colors slipping from the canvas of the night in transformation from light to liquid.
