Amazing Aurora Borealis in the Sky
Paul
Would you know how the aurora borealis came about? And what purpose does it have on us human beings? Just asking ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc3FxNXjBs0
Niña Lojo
"According to the Canadian Association of Aboriginal Entrepreneurship, the Eskimos of the lower Yukon River in Alaska believed the auroras were the “dancing souls of their favorite animals: deer, seal, salmon, and beluga whales,” the group says on its website. The Nunamiut Eskimos believed that ”if the sky is divided in half by auroral displays, animals will be plentiful in the area the next day.”
Inuit shamans used the aurora to help cure disease, calling upon it as a spirit, the site says, adding, “Inuit leaders would take ‘spirit journeys’ into the lights to obtain advice and rescue souls from death.”
Children in the north are to this day told not to whistle or sing to the northern lights: “The lights will come and take you away,” the say, according to the CAAE. “They are not to be trusted.”
Images of the aurora borealis decapitating unsuspecting people are a running theme throughout Inuit art, especially carvings.
“To people who lived in the spirit-filled world of traditional cultures, one fact was clear,” the CAAE says. “The forces that dance in the polar dark are awe-inspiring—alien, frightening, uncontrollable and immensely active.”
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