[SunkenCiv]

:') Good lookin' out. :')

[Fred Nerks]

all the mysteries and various rites, all go back to those experiences, in order to re-live them...

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I never can view a fireworks display without thinking about how the Chinese put to use their invention of 'gunpowder' -

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The fortunate find in the seventies, at Mawangdui, China, of a Han dynasty silk comet atlas sheds considerable light on earlier enigmatic motifs...

http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/sw/swpi.html

Fireworks displays appear to be recreations of what historic man saw in the sky...