Feb 20, 2008
Venus' Tail of the Unexpected
Ancient peoples report that the planet Venus once had
visible "ropes" stretching out to the Earth. Could a plasma
glow discharge have been the cause?
The "induced magnetotail" that points away from Venus in the direction of the
earth is a teardrop-shaped plasma structure filled with “a lot of little stringy
things” that was first detected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Orbiter in the late
1970s. In 1997, Europe’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite
showed that the tail stretched some 45,000,000 kilometres into space, more than
600 times as far as anyone had realized and almost far enough to “tickle”
the earth when the two planets are in line with the sun.
“In this sense”,
scientists write, “Venus can be likened to a comet,
which has an induced magnetotail of similar origin.”
Intriguingly, as has been
abundantly documented on this forum, human societies outside
the mainstream of western science have long associated the
morning or evening star with just such a conspicuous “rope”
or “string”. Particularly explicit are some examples drawn
from the near-contemporary cosmology of native Australian
communities.
The Ringu-Ringu people of central Queensland, “call the star
Venus mimungoona or big eye” and assert that “no
water exists in the star, but there are ropes which hang
from its surface to the earth, by means of which the
dwellers visit our planet from time to time, and assuage
their thirst.”
And Manoowa Wongupali, a spokesman of the Jumbapoingo people
of Milingimbi, to the northeast of Darwin, gave an
explanation of the rising of the morning star in which a
string of feathers features prominently: “When the two
spirits Naikala and Birrowarr want to speak with spirits in
other countries, they throw the pul pul, the tuft of white
feathers, which is the morning star, into the sky and, when
it is daylight, they pull the morning star, on the end of
its string, down again to Buralku, the island of the spirits
of the dead. The morning star on the end of its string lies
coiled up in the dilly bag of one old man spirit. This dilly
bag, called Battee, is the mother of the morning star. It is
the womb. The tuft of white feathers, the morning star, is
the child looking out of the dilly bag. And the string,
coiled in the dilly bag, is the cord by which the child is
joined to its mother.”
It goes without saying that “traditional” societies can only
have learned about Venus’ plasma tail if the latter has at
one time been visible to the unaided human eye. Certainly,
the modern scientific understanding of the tail allows for
the possibility that it plasma discharged, attaining a
visible glow mode, at a time when the sun produced an
extremely enhanced outflow of ions.
Contributed by Rens Van der Sluijs
www.mythopedia.info
Further reading:
The Mythology of the World Axis; Exploring the Role of
Plasma in World Mythology
www.lulu.com/content/1085275
The World Axis as an
Atmospheric Phenomenon
www.lulu.com/content/1305081
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