MILKY WAY CONTOURS
Living
much under the open sky without all the modern fashions and technological
equipment,
our ancestors had much time to observe the seasonal changes with all the night and day
experiences that came along throughout the revolving year.
The
large Milky Way figure was of course very important as a symbol for our
ancestors as well as it is for us to day.
Figure
1 is a schematic drawing of the white Milky Ways northern contours to show the most simple
way of picturing the Milky Way contours and the celestial north pole. Picture
2 are from Denmark, Bornholm, Allinge location Madsebakke, about 200
meters from the street in which I live. Among several
groups of cupmarks there are several line figures in different directions and with 1
or 2 lines to show the figure.
The
difference between making 1 or 2 lines on the rock figures show just how much or how little the artist
have done in order to make the planned symbol. Beside that fact, the same sky object
can be different pictured depending on the visual power of every artist.
When these figures in my opinion are
meant to show the contours of the
Milky Way, the figures are placed in different directions because the white
contours of the Milky Way apparently changes direction and size trough the year and trough
the day and night as well.
Of
course such a enormous figure was observed very alike over countries and continents which
explain the
great similarity there are between rock carving symbols all over the world.
Throughout
the revolving year you will se the Milky Way contours increase and decrease
because of the fact of the Earth are circling around the Sun. Also we have the
summer period where you can observe very little or nothing because of the light
season. This fact are of course also included in the mythological storytelling.
SUN-CARRIAGE OR MILKY WAY
CARRIAGE?
The Norse Mythology have a
telling of a Horse dragging the Sun over the vault of heaven. This must be a
confusion. You cannot create such a symbol and such a story. One cannot se any
Horse dragging the Sun Disk over the vault of Heaven! The confusion is made when
scholars interpret the Wheel-symbol as a Sun-symbol, which is wrong.
This picture shows the unfolded
star map of the Milky Way north and south Contours with the celestial pole
centres. Picture 2 shows a part of a Canadian rock carving from Peterbourough,
Toronto.
The Wheel-symbol is a symbol of
"centre". In the night you can observe such a centre where the stars seems not
to revolve in the Sky, called the Celestial Centre. If you look at the night Sky
on a favourable night, you also ca se the contours of the Milky Way.
Rock Art Carvings shoving a
Horse "dragging a circle".
Picture 1 shows a part of a
Bronze Age razor. Picture 2 showing a ritual carriage from the Bronze Age,
called the "Sun Wagon" from Trundholm, Denmark. All these pictures shows
different cultural stages of picturing the same motif: The Milky Way contours
with the Celestial Centre.
Therefore the "Sun-Carriage"
must be renamed to "Milky Way -Carriage" and the mythological storytelling
should be telling of this in stead of "dragging the Sun-disk over the vault of
heaven".
ABSTRACT FIGURES.
It sometimes takes a modern
human with a great imagination to interpretate the ancient symbols! But you
either have to interpretate the symbols mythological - or simply interpretate
the symbols as a pure natural phenomenon.
THE FIRST
SYMBOLS OF CREATION.
The basic
mythological storytelling of Creation originates from the Milky Way and its
contours. In the centre of our Galaxy, the Lifetree is standing. Looking at
the Star Atlas pictures to the right and left, one easily can imagine the
contours as a Man and a Woman, named Adam and Eve in the Bible and many other
names in different cultures all over the world.
The
most specifics about the Milky Way contours is the white colour itself. The
white colour was sanctified by our ancestors to the extent that many indigenous
people thought that the white people was a Great White God when they first had
an encounter with the white man.
Unfortunately
that fact also was a main course of the destroying and diminishing of many cultures all over the
world.
Look also Google
search for Geoglyphs here:
http://www.google.dk/search?hl=da&q=geoglyphs&meta=
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