Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. -harry dresden

"His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth." -Auri [the name of the wind]

"...The extreme preoccupation of the most early societies with celestial imagery...appears to be part of a world wide phenomenon."

"Could the prehistoric 'sky' have been much more active than now?"

mark bailey
atronomer, armagh observatory

"The great god lives, fixed in the middle of the sky."
-Egyptian coffin texts

"The space between the two planets lights up and is set aflame by both planets and produces a train of fire."
-Seneca, Roman naturalist

"Heavenly fire is spit forth by the planet as crackling charcoal flies from the burning log."
-Pliny, Roman naturalist

Ares (Mars) "darted swift and bright as the thunderbolt terribly flashing from the mighty hand of Zeus."
-Quintus Smyrnaeus

"...A 'derivation' of the sword from a 'root' or archetype in lightning is universal and world wide."
-Ananda Coomaraswamy

"O Great Mountain (Enlil)
whose head rivals the heavens,
Whose foundation is laid
in the pure abyss.
Whose horns gleam."

-Sumerian hymn

"I am the bull, the Old One...
I support the sky with my horns."
-Egyptian coffin texts

"...the pillar of the stars,
the Bull of Heaven..."

"whose horns shine,
the anointed pillar,
the Bull of Heaven."

-Egyptian pyramid texts

"The tip of its flame crosses the land from the sky ... No one at all can approach her, the streams behind her are flames of fire."
-Egyptian coffin texts

"Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land...Raining the fanned fire down upon the nation."
-Sumerian hymn to Inanna, the Planet Venus

"I know my mother, the White Crown."
-Egyptian pyramid texts

"The cobra-snake of Ra, who came forth from him -- The Eye of Ra. She is the flaming goddess."
-Egyptian pyramid texts