Mythical axis mundi & geomagnetic auroral configurations

[Dover]

Sep 18, 2008
The Spirit of Mythology – Part Two

Why does the mythical axis mundi – a cosmic tree, mountain or pillar – feature so prominently in traditional descriptions of “heaven” or “paradise”, the place where souls go after death or during a mystical vision?

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...A detailed structural analysis of traditions about the axis mundi and the “creation of the world” in general suggests that the prototype was a complex high-energy-density auroral configuration produced during a violent geomagnetic storm towards the end of the Neolithic period. If true, this sky-reaching column as well as its many constituents were really formed of glowing plasma. Considering the surprisingly life-like properties of plasmas in high-energy environments, it should perhaps not come as a surprise that traditional cultures worldwide portray this axis as a veritable “lifeline”, a “tree of life”, the embodiment of primordial life, and the original repository of life forms. This animated nature could explain the intimate association between the axis and a world of “souls”, clarifying in the process why human societies have always tended to imagine souls to be like glowing, gaseous clouds or sparks not unlike little stars.

On a far more speculative note, the electric nature of the nervous system invites the possibility that whatever the “soul” is, it may indeed bear a relationship to plasmas interacting with the geomagnetic environment. Could there be more to the ancient tendency to depict a human being as a microcosmic replication of the universe, whose spinal column corresponded to the macrocosmic polar axis?

http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2008/arch08/080918mythology2.htm


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[LaurenG]

1. Nice - this puts a nice spotlight on "As above so below"

Thanks Dover!

[I Have A Dream]

2. Thanks for posting this, Dover. That's a very interesting site also.

I'm going to check out some of the other articles there as well.