couple of TPODs "does not exist" error

[MattEU]

Apr 05, 2010 Re (Ra) the Red Sun
Apr 28, 2010 Amun - An Ancient Aurora Filled Sky

just to let you know that these 2 TPODs links dont seem to be working. i thought it might have been the link on another site but it does not work from thunderbolts. when you get a spare moment can you have a look at them, cheers

[The Great Dog]

The Great Dog was told that they were removed from the archive because they were not up to date with current research by Rens Van Der Sluijs, Ev Cochrane and Dave Talbott. They are possibly being revised.

TGD

[MattEU]

while i trust the Dogs nose and instincts i dont understand how that can be correct. please can someone from thunderbolts explain, as it is starting to not look like a technical error, so the Dog might be correct. the reason for my doubt is that this site is not bad astronomy or wikipedia

[The Great Dog]

Regardless, The Great Dog's information is accurate.

[MattEU]

anyone from the thunderbolts project going to confirm this and explain exactly what is happening?

[davesmith_au]

Matt, the appropriate route for your enquiry would be to use the "contact us" link on the site proper. It can be found in the header of every page.

Cheers, Dave Smith.

[MattEU]

hi dave, sorry but i was just folowing what i have done before when thunderbolts had a technical issue, when i would post it on the forum. it seems a bit rude to PM someone. its like saying "oi you there, this is your fault, sort it out now"

but as it now seems to be a TPOD or thunderbolts policy thing shouldnt everyone know about it or be made aware? this board would seem to be the appropriate place for that. unless of course, and considering the subject matter, i am the only one interested in finding out what has happened and what the reasons are!

also, something public as i need a sort of "official" explanation to mention on other sites where these 2 TPODs have been linked and quoted. unless i have to remove any mention or links of these TPODs from other sites or put in one of those legal small print things ?

[MattEU]

just a reminder for a reply to my PM about why these posts were deleted and why you wont publish the explanation in public, thanks. if you are on holiday or watching the world cup then sorry for being inpatient

[MattEU]

as i have said about garys ideas before its that they have "transferable skills" with other myths and legends ...

http://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/ancient-aurorae.htm

At http://www.thunderbolts.info April 28th, 'Picture of the Day', ... 'Amun - an Ancient Aurora filled sky' by Gary Gilligan. He claims the Egyptian god Amun wears a crown that is the aurora - sacred colours that have been eroded or flaked away from stone monuments over the millennia. The parallel is of course with the bright tail feathers of the quetzal bird, cognate within the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl. Such stone statues and monuments, even temples and buildings, were once colourful affairs. Sometimes these can be put back into place by computer simulation - but generally, most of the evidence has been lost - or even brushed aside by archaeologists intent on the visible object in front of them rather than it's detritus on the ground. Apparently, Mesopotamian ziggurats were colourful buildings - reflecting aurora (perhaps). Therefore this particular post on Thunderbolts is relevant, and in the same vein. Amun is commonly shown in a human form standing or sitting on a throne and wearing a red flat topped crown with two tall plumes. He also holds a sceptre - symbol of the thunderbolt. Amun was especially popular in the NK period (mid to late 2nd millennium BC) and he was known as King of the Gods (at that moment in time). Gilligan produces an image of Amun with blue skin, a yellow kilt and red crown. the two tall plumes are segmented into blue, red, and green. He then compares this with a photograph of aurora and suggests the crown is a symbolic representation of an intense geomagnetic storm. A wonderful insight.

Amun was also known as 'the hidden one' - possibly reflecting the transparency of auroral phenomena, 'whose true form could never be known' (the undulating shape shifting nature of aurorae). Gilligan then says the solar wind is deflected around the earth to form an enormous magnetic tail divided into two lobes rising and setting in opposition to the Sun. Nowadays this is invisible but he speculates it could account for the two mountains as in the title of Amun, Lord of the Two Mountains (and parallels with myth elsewhere in the world are obvious). This is possibly why he was adorned by two plumes, Gilligan thinks, rather than a single one (and we may note the tail feathers of the quetzal bird are also two). In addition, Gilligan has found a parallel between the blue skinned Amun and the Anglo Saxon god Woden - the colour of blue appears to play a major role in myth (see also the blue Krishna for example).