And with serpents
The solar wind can cause the comet's tail to twist and appear to writhe. This is illustrated by this APOD picture of Comet Ikeya-Zhang:
We don't see too many large comets these days, or this effect would be much more widely known.
Posted on 02/26/2004 12:30:26 PM PST by blam
The Zuni Enigma
Very interesting--looks like I'm heading back to the library again soon, LOL! While I was there today getting Mummies of Urumchi I also picked up some books on Asian and American Indian art to see if I could identify any parallels, and one thing I was meaning to look at was the possibility of Japanese influence on Indians of the American Pacific coastline, which sounds like it would fit well with the thesis of Davis' book. The art of Pacific Northwest Indians has always intuitively struck me as similar to Pacific islanders' art, which I've guessed might reflect Japanese influence. I hadn't considered the possibility of Japanese influence on Southwestern tribes as well--very interesting idea. Thanks for the reference!
Thailand is a developing country as opposed to a third world country and as such has a well developed University system which has just come into its own recently. The country is one big archaeological site with the Buddhist Sangha very involved. There are also several foreign Universities with people over there most of the time. Of course, Buddhists have specific interests but they are not really closed minded. It is a lot easier to dig in a wat coumpound than on an American Indian reservation. Kings Rama IV, Rama V, and Rama VI were particularly interested in Archaeology and invited American, French, Dutch and British archaeologists in. Now I know that the University of Penn. and U of Minn., are among the American schools working with Thammasat Univ. Fine Arts Department on both sites and restorations. A French group was working with Chiang Mai University near Lamphun on a Dravidian / Mon site going back about 1600 years. Additionally, there are neolithic and bronze age sites active when funds become available near Chaing Mai.
One of the people I talk to a lot is a retired Engineering professor from Chiang Mai University. If his wife were in better health, he would like to become a monk again at a temple near Nan. Others I have talked to are from Char Hae, near my wife's home in Phrae Province. These people are quite well read -- much more so than I. A lot of the temples are 600 to 700 years old and are built on earlier sites -- some going back to 300 AD. Signs of Buddhism are sparse going back that far but in the Northeast, Khmer Hindu temples (some later converted to Buddlist), are literally all over the place.
The very early periods of Ban Chiang pottery have designs similar to both Southwestern and Southeastern USA. However, most pottery of that period (5,000 to 8,000 years ago)worldwide can be said to be similar to the later Native American pottery.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Atlas of the Mysterious in North America
Incidentally, there's a lot of other interesting (and often strange) info in this book. Although the author generally takes politically-correct issue with the hypothesis that North American burial mounds might be of European origin, p. 62 mentions that one North American cairn occurs at a known Norse site in Newfoundland, L'Anse aux Meadows. Crossreferencing of this site with the author's accompanying map shows that the site is near another burial mound dated to 2000 BC, the L'Anse Amour Burial Mound, and is also south of a Labrador stoneworks site at Nulliak Island that resembles sites in New England which the colonists attributed to the Celts.
ROFL! At the rate new stuff is coming out sometimes I feel like 9 days is a long time these days! :)
And with serpents
The solar wind can cause the comet's tail to twist and appear to writhe. This is illustrated by this APOD picture of Comet Ikeya-Zhang:
We don't see too many large comets these days, or this effect would be much more widely known.
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