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.
Of
course our ancestors have noticed that the stars are revolving.
That is, except from the point in the heaven where no movement seems to take place.
The seemingly rotating figure on the northern hemisphere symbolizes the
Greatest male deity in the Mythological Story from all over the World.
This figure symbolizes for instants Chronos, Zeus, Odin, Saturn (not the
planet) and several other names.
But the figure are
also symbolized with several other phenomenon's, of which the Heavenly
Ship and a White Horse or Bull are the most common.
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 groups of cupmarks there are several line figures in different directions and with 1
or 2 lines to show the figure.
This Milky Way Symbol, Madsebakke, Allinge,
Denmark, shows a so called "Ship", with the celestial North Pole centre
marking above "the Ship", clearly showing the, from Earth, seemingly
revolving movement. (The painting colour should really be WHITE
accordingly to the telling about the white Mythical Milky Way Ship)
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 celestial 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
and night as well.
The full Contours
of our Milky Way with the Southern contours above and the Northern below.
It is the Northern hemisphere contours as seen above that gives
shape to the Ship. If flipped vertically and rotated 90 degree, the
Northern contours changes mythological and become "A Horse dragging
the Southern hemisphere contours, in which the Milky Way centre is
located.
From the Egypt
tomb of Ramesses VI. The white Milky Way contours represented as the goddess Nut.
This note is the most common description of this picture. But there
is more to it!
A closer look at
the picture shows the sex details on the figures, with the night
goddess Nut above and the night god Shu below. Again we have the 2
major figures on the night Sky, namely the Milky Way contours of the southern
(Nut) and northern (Shu) hemisphere.
Star Atlas
showing the Milky Way contours of the major and supreme god and
goddess.
A Rock Art symbol of the Milky
Way centre dragged by a Horse. An Star Atlas with the full Mulky Way
contours and the wagon from Trundholm, Denmark, called the
"Sun-Wagon" has clearly nothing to do with the LIGHT of the Sun
dragged by a Horse or transported by a Ship but with the WHITE
colour and GLOW of the contours of the Milky Way Galaxy. Hence also
the golden layer on the Trundholm Wagon disc to the right.
Of
course such a enormous figure was observed very alike over countries and continents which explains 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. Milky Way Myths and modernized
legends.
MILKY WAY MYTHS
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Ancient
cultures all over the World are describing the Milky Way Galaxy in
their stories of Creation. Either symbolized by human or animal
characters or even as anthropomorphic creatures. All with the
WHITE COLOUR DESCRIPTION as the common denominator.
John O`Neill, author
of "The night of the Gods"
http://www.archive.org/stream/nightgods00unkngoog#page/n6/mode/1up
Cosmic, Cosmogonic
Myths and Symbols - Which all describes and confirms my texts.
China
http://www.chinapage.com/wsnake.html
USA
http://www.sacredwhitebuffalo.org/legend.html
http://www.jefflindsay.com/bme9.shtml
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NA-WhiteBuffalo.html
http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/berezkin/eng/041_137.htm
(Amerindian and Old World comparisons)
South Africa
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.356
Australia
http://www.sacred-texts.com/aus/peck/peck21.htm
Tonga
http://www.spurwing.co.zw/nyaminyami.html
Mexico
http://www.nephiproject.com/white_god_quetzalcoatl.htm
Maya
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/milkyway.html
(World Tree)
Aztec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl
Maori (Very
universal)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_mythology
MILKY WAY
ENCYCLOPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_(mythology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_Milky_Way
http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.MilkyWayOrigins.html
WIKIPEDIA:
MILKY WAY NAMES
Armenian:
Յարդ զողի Ճանապարհ
hard goghi chanaparh, "Straw Thief's Way", from a
myth.[1]
Arabic:
Arabic
درب التبانة
,(Darb Al-Tabana) means Milky way.
Basque:
Esne bidea, from Latin.
Bulgarian:
Млечен Път,
"Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Catalan:
Via Làctia, "Milky Way", translated from
Latin.
Catalan:
Camí de Santiago, "The Road to Santiago".
Cherokee:
Gili Ulisvsdanvyi, "The Way the Dog Ran Away",
from a
myth.
Chinese:
銀河,
"Silver River".
Croatian:
Mliječni Put, "Milky Way" translated from
Latin. Traditionally it was named Kumova slama, (Godfather's straw)
Czech:
Mléčná dráha, "Milky Way" translated from
Greek or Latin.
Danish:
Mælkevejen.
Dutch:
Melkweg, "Milky Way" translated from Latin.
English:
Milky Way, translated from Latin.[2]
Estonian:
Linnutee, "Way of Birds", from a
myth.
Finnish:
Linnunrata ,"Way of Birds", from a
myth.
French:
La voie lactée, "The Milky Way".
German:
Milchstraße, "Milky Way"
Georgian:
irmis naxtomi, "The Deer Jump"
Greek:
Γαλαξίας κύκλος
Galaxias Kyklos, "Milky Circle", from a
myth.
Hebrew:
שביל החלב
,"The Milky Way".
Hindi:
akashaganga
"Ganges
River
of Heaven", from a
myth.[1]
Hungarian:
Hadak Útja, "The Road of the Warriors", from a
myth.
However this is the historical term, today it is known simply as "Tejút",
meaning "Milk Way".
Icelandic:
Vetrarbrautin, "The Winter Way."
Indonesian:
Bima Sakti "Magical Bima", a character in
Sanskrit
epic
Mahabharata
Irish:
Bealach na Bó Finne, "The Fair Cow's Way", or Slabhbra Luigh, "Lugh's
Chain"
Italian:
Via Lattea "Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Japanese:
天の川
amanogawa, "River of Heaven"
Korean:
은하
eunha "Silver River", from Chinese, or "미리내"(mirinae)
in pure Korean. The Milky Way is specifically called "Uri Eunha",
("Our Galaxy").
Latin:
Via Lactea, "Milky Way", translated from Greek.
Lithuanian:
Paukščių Takas, The Birds' Path
Latvian:
Putnu Ceļš, The Birds' Path
Maltese:
It-triq ta' Sant' Anna,St Anne's road
Malay:
Bima Sakti "Magical Bima", a character in
Sanskrit
epic
Mahabharata
Norwegian:
Melkeveien, "The milky way"
Norwegian:
Vinterbrauta, "The Winter Way" (Nynorsk)
Portuguese:
Estrada de Santiago, "The Road to Santiago" (used in European
Portuguese only)
Polish:
Droga Mleczna "Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Portuguese:
Via Láctea "Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Romanian:
Calea Lactee "Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Russian:
Млечный путь
"Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Serbian:
Mlečni put "Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Serbian:
Млечни пут
"Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Slovene:
Rimska cesta "The Roman Road", because pilgrims followed it when
travelling to
Rome.
Spanish:
Via láctea "Milky Way", translated from Latin.
Spanish:
Camino de Santiago, "The Road to Santiago".
Swedish:
Vintergatan, "Winter Street", because it is more visible during the
winter in Scandinavia and looks like a snowy street.
Thai:
ทางช้างเผือก,
"The way of the
white elephant".
Turkish:
Samanyolu ,"Road of Straw"
Ukrainian:
Чумацький шлях,
"Way of
Chumak"
Vietnamese:
Ngân Hà ,"Silver River", translated from Chinese.
Welsh:
Llwybr Llaethog, "Milky Way", translated from the Latin.
Welsh:
Caer Wydion, "The Fort of Gwydion" (Gwydion).
Look also Google
search for Geoglyphs here:
http://www.google.dk/search?hl=da&q=geoglyphs&meta=
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