The Dancing Stars"
The Dancing Stars have been noted by astronomers for many years. So many
years that it is thought to be quite an ordinary occurence. So when statements
in ancient texts tell us about the "dancing stars," or "stars moving out of their
places," this normal, everyday phenomenon of astronomy is thought to be the
childish nonsense of an uneducated community, a religious experience or just
plain myth, a story for children.
China, in the Moho manuscript of the Nashki tell us that many trees were
'dancing [in the sky]."This is a good indication that the tale, drawn out
as a picture story, is actually an ancient astronomer looking at the "tree
of the world", the Milky Way, when those stars appeared to wobble during
the night when something passed through them creating very gasseous cloudy
conditions.
Their current version of this blinking effect is that a flock of
magpies (which have black and white wings in some areas of the world),
flew across the Milky Way to create a bridge once a year so that the Herdsman,
with their twin children and the Weaving Lady could visit each other.
Can we no longer visualize the blackness of a flock of birds flying
high in the sky, wings flapping up and down as they cross the Milky Way
on their way somewhere. The wing motions could alternately hide or show
the stars as the birds past in front of them. It is not that it iss a true
version of the event, but instead, a version that a farmer or a peasant
could understand after seeing the cranes or other birds fly in the night
sky, their great wings obscuring individual, isolated stars as they past.
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