SPACE TORNADOS CAUSE A STIR

by Theresa, Monday, December 14, 2009, 10:53

Space Tornadoes Cause a Stir
Apr 29, 2009
The idea of a giant radiant pillar rising up from the earth to the sky would have sounded too fantastic to be true - until recently.
In April of 2009, NASA's fleet of THEMIS satellites detected vast electrical tornadoes about 40,000 miles above the night side of the earth, on the boundary between the solar wind and the earth's magnetosphere.

Since the 1990s, a handful of 'plasma mythologists' had assumed the former existence of a stupendous, luminous sky column that was visible from almost every part of the earth. The evidence for this was the prominent place allotted to this axis mundi or 'world axis' in detailed cosmological traditions from hundreds of cultures dotted around the globe.

The column was widely portrayed as a prodigious mountain, tree, rope, bridge, ladder or pathway and was universally characterised by notions of centrality, vitality, vorticity, and luminosity: the conspicuous position it occupied in the firmament earned it an association with the 'navel', 'heart' or 'centre' of the world; its agility made it seem as if it was imbued with life, like a giant divine creature breathing life into the surrounding cosmos; its filamentary extremities were subject to warping and twisting, while the column itself was seen to be entwined by spiralling filaments frequently compared to snakes; and the splendour of the light it emitted repeatedly invited comparison to the sun and to lightning.

Scores of mythical traditions from all inhabited continents detail the eventual collapse and disappearance of this mighty lightning-like pillar. The Maya of Valladolid, Yucatán, recalled the existence of "a road suspended in the sky" over the peninsula: "For some reason this rope was cut, the blood flowed out, and the rope vanished forever."

MUCH MORE:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2009/arch09/090429stir.htm