Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff
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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie,
Speaker 1: those are some interesting ear rings you have on there. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you, my aura borus ear rings. They are the
Speaker 1: aar borus snake and it's actually curling and biting its
Speaker 1: tail in its mouth. Well that's the illusion actually when
Speaker 1: it's in my ear Yes, the Aora borus. You know,
Speaker 1: we recently did that episode on symbols, and we talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about powerful symbols, ancient symbols, symbols that
Speaker 1: just resonate with meaning and continue to do so just
Speaker 1: across thousands and thousands of years of human history. And
Speaker 1: the aura borus is a fantastic example of this. Uh.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's depicted as a more of a snake. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's more of a dragon or a lizard looking creature,
Speaker 1: and it is always biting its own tail and or
Speaker 1: consuming its own tail, So the tail is going in
Speaker 1: the mouth, and it instantly even if you're not familiar
Speaker 1: with any of the the the historic interpretations of the
Speaker 1: o reborus, it instantly draws certain ideas to the forefront
Speaker 1: the idea of on a very simple level, like the
Speaker 1: consumption of oneself auto cannibalism, but also the idea that
Speaker 1: what is what's going to happen? What is happening with
Speaker 1: the serpent eating its own tail? How long can it
Speaker 1: can maintain this, this self devouring movement before it can't
Speaker 1: eat itself anymore? Does it get to the point where
Speaker 1: it just blinks out into nothing or is this a
Speaker 1: continuing cycle? Is it not only eating itself but emerging
Speaker 1: from itself? Okay, so it's the whole idea of like, uh,
Speaker 1: you're either descending into nothingness or you're coming from nothingness. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to point out that rat snakes, along
Speaker 1: with some other species of snakes, have been known to
Speaker 1: swallow their tails um in an act of as you say,
Speaker 1: auto cannibalism, although this has seen primarily in captivitying when
Speaker 1: they're cages that are small. Yeah. Um, so it is
Speaker 1: something that exists in nature, but largely the rbrus has,
Speaker 1: as you say, come to symbolize this idea of rebirth,
Speaker 1: uh infinity in this continuity, this this wheel of cycles
Speaker 1: that you've actually talked about before in terms of some Sara. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's essentially it's a it's a cosmic serpent,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of cosmic serpents and world
Speaker 1: serpents in mythology, I mean, ranging from the Leviathan that's
Speaker 1: mentioned in the Old Testament, Uh, comes up in the
Speaker 1: Book of job or the organ Mander, the giant be
Speaker 1: steel serpent that plays a role in Ragnar Rock in
Speaker 1: the End of the World, and the or wards resonates
Speaker 1: with these ideas of self consumption. Uh, it's continuing to emerge,
Speaker 1: and you might even draw that if this process is disturbed,
Speaker 1: it might well mean the end of time. So it's
Speaker 1: a circle of eternity. It takes our linear existence and
Speaker 1: turns it on its head, turns it into the cyclical
Speaker 1: form that at once makes more sense and that it
Speaker 1: ties back to our cyclical understanding of life. But also
Speaker 1: it's kind of mind blowing in and on itself because
Speaker 1: you again you try to figure out how how would
Speaker 1: this work in real life. It's kind of like an
Speaker 1: extra painting, like the oldest possible extra painting. As I said,
Speaker 1: the bors dates back to ancient times. Uh, the pretty
Speaker 1: much the earliest one that we've ever encountered comes comes
Speaker 1: from Egypt, from the what we refer to as the
Speaker 1: Enigmatic Book of the nether World. And that's just a
Speaker 1: name we came up for it. It's in great and
Speaker 1: not you and I, but we as modern humans are
Speaker 1: ultimately modern humans. It was fine and found engraved in
Speaker 1: a shrine of Tuton common Uh and in it we
Speaker 1: see a figure named He who rides the hours, and
Speaker 1: both the head and the feet of this figure surrounded
Speaker 1: by an ora bors serpent uh. That is designated is
Speaker 1: me Hin the Enveloper, and that comes from about the
Speaker 1: fourteenth century v C. But elsewhere in China and the
Speaker 1: Near Ease, we see examples of it in the neolithic
Speaker 1: yang Shao culture that thrived in the Yellow River between
Speaker 1: five thousand and three thousand BC, and so it just
Speaker 1: continues to carry on from there. There's some scholars that
Speaker 1: believe that there's a link between the the yin yang
Speaker 1: symbol of the opposing forces swirling together, classic Asian symbol,
Speaker 1: that there's a connection between that and the aura borus
Speaker 1: you see later on. The Gnostics looked at it as
Speaker 1: the soul of the world. The alchemists prized it Uh.
Speaker 1: It ends up interpreted in other mythologies as well, in
Speaker 1: some South American traditions as well as in uh some
Speaker 1: of the ancient Mapa mondays that we were talking about
Speaker 1: in our Sea Monsters episode. You see the Great Tale
Speaker 1: of our in Serpent as a beast that encircles the
Speaker 1: known world or the known oceans. It becomes something that
Speaker 1: represents the limits of our geographical understanding and perhaps our
Speaker 1: cosmic understanding as well. Yeah, that's interesting because in Norse
Speaker 1: mythology it comes to represent this idea of the surcumference
Speaker 1: of the world here right, And I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: that there's a really starkly pet will hand drawn are
Speaker 1: a borus that dates back from or back to ancient Egypt,
Speaker 1: and it has the writing all is one inscribed in
Speaker 1: the middle, which kind of speaks a bit too zen
Speaker 1: buddhism um. So yeah, you have all these different ancient
Speaker 1: civilizations embracing this symbol, and I thought that's really powerful
Speaker 1: and cool and and actually if you look at even
Speaker 1: someone like the German chemist August Cakel who dreamed of
Speaker 1: a snake that seized a talentso mouth of that was
Speaker 1: inspiration for him figuring out that benzine had a ring
Speaker 1: like molecular structure, So it's definitely ingrained in our conscious
Speaker 1: and I think it's interesting that it may even relate
Speaker 1: to the yenang. Yeah. Now, and speaking of consciousness, Carl
Speaker 1: Young had this to say about it. He did. He
Speaker 1: was talking about the alchemist's fundness for the ora borus,
Speaker 1: and he says, the alchemist, who in their own way
Speaker 1: knew more about the nature of the individualization process than
Speaker 1: we moderns do, express this paradox to the symbol of
Speaker 1: the ora borus, the snake that eats its own tail.
Speaker 1: The ora borus has been said to have a meaning
Speaker 1: of infinity or wholeness. In the age old image of
Speaker 1: the ara Borus lies the thought of devouring oneself and
Speaker 1: turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear
Speaker 1: to the more astute alchemist that the prima material of
Speaker 1: the art was man himself. The ora Borus is a
Speaker 1: dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite
Speaker 1: of the shadow. This feedback process is at the same
Speaker 1: time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of
Speaker 1: the ara Borus that he slays himself and brings himself
Speaker 1: to life. Fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself. He
Speaker 1: symbolizes the one who proceeds from the clash of opposites,
Speaker 1: and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima material,
Speaker 1: which unquestionably stems from man's consciousness. Now, of course, I
Speaker 1: can't help to wonder if the Matrix ever really worked
Speaker 1: the Ora Borus into its plotlines. It should have if
Speaker 1: it hadn't, because it's got the whole the one thing though,
Speaker 1: I was kind of tuning out a little bit in
Speaker 1: the third one, but it seems like that's where it
Speaker 1: would have shown up. Um. Well, okay, so maybe maybe
Speaker 1: the Matrix didn't take hold of that imagery. But you know,
Speaker 1: as we said, this did get kind of buried into
Speaker 1: people's consciousness. And then of course you have or subconscious
Speaker 1: you have people taking on the r brs in a
Speaker 1: folk tale like fashion and sort of incorporating into the boogeyman,
Speaker 1: which is interesting. You're talking about hoop snakes, I believe, Um, yes, now,
Speaker 1: this is this is a creature that stems from lumberjack
Speaker 1: folklore of Wisconsin in Minnesota during the nineteenth and early
Speaker 1: twentieth century. The they're often generally just referred to in
Speaker 1: general as the fearsome critters. And I really believe this
Speaker 1: is an underappreciated area of monsters, probably because, I mean,
Speaker 1: part of it is that, on one hand, these monsters
Speaker 1: were used to sort of describe weird noises that you'd
Speaker 1: encounter in a lonely landscape. But they were also used
Speaker 1: to lighten the mood around camp. So they were they
Speaker 1: were silly, they were exaggerated, they were fun. And so
Speaker 1: the example of the hoop snake is here you have
Speaker 1: a highly colored snake and extremely poisonous and aggressive of course,
Speaker 1: like any monster should be. And it moves by taking
Speaker 1: its hail in its mouth and then jumping up and
Speaker 1: rolling like a hoop at high speeds. So again it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a predator. It'll definitely come after a human.
Speaker 1: The lumberjack, so specifically lumberjacks. When you're wearing those check shirts,
Speaker 1: your your toast, Yeah, they see you, and you're making
Speaker 1: all that noise of that axe. And so the hoop
Speaker 1: snakes running at you. What are you gonna do? What's
Speaker 1: your defense? This thing just barreling towards you. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just poisonous, is all get out my ax, you
Speaker 1: no accident, gonna work one move, one move? What do
Speaker 1: you do? Uh well, oh I jumped through it. Yes,
Speaker 1: you dive through the center of the hoop, and then
Speaker 1: a This confuses the hoop snake, and then the the
Speaker 1: the hoop snake cannot stop. It just keeps on rolling.
Speaker 1: So that's how the lumberjacks supposedly survived the motions of
Speaker 1: the hoop snake. Yeah, I love it because I love
Speaker 1: this idea that you have a snake taking its tail
Speaker 1: into its mouth and all of a sudden becoming you know, mobile,
Speaker 1: and just rolling after someone and then trying to sting
Speaker 1: someone with its tail. So it's great imagery. But while
Speaker 1: the hoop or also called the mud snake, cannot stay
Speaker 1: with its tail, it does have a hard spine back
Speaker 1: that could draw blood when it thrashes vigorously. So some
Speaker 1: of this is observing snakes in the way they lay
Speaker 1: around and and and may appear to have a hoop
Speaker 1: like form, and and thinking, hey, you know what if
Speaker 1: that thing were to take its tail in its mouth
Speaker 1: like this sort of image that's ingrained in my psyche,
Speaker 1: and it were to roll around like a like a
Speaker 1: hoop toy, well, and in fact that actually does happen,
Speaker 1: although not with snakes, right. Yes. The the amazing thing
Speaker 1: about this is that there are creatures that are you know,
Speaker 1: serpentine in form essentially, that do roll up. And certainly
Speaker 1: a lot of creatures roll up, I mean humans when
Speaker 1: when we get in our fetal position for a little
Speaker 1: you know, lonely sleep or something, or are you know
Speaker 1: cats sleeping on the couch whatever, A lot of creatures
Speaker 1: roll up into a form. But they don't roll across
Speaker 1: the ground in that curled form. But you do see
Speaker 1: that in at least a couple of usually, but you
Speaker 1: do see this activity in a couple of different creators.
Speaker 1: First of all, the mount Lyle salamander, and uh, like
Speaker 1: a lot of salamanders, it curls up, but it also
Speaker 1: uses this as a no nonsense defense measure. Um. It
Speaker 1: makes its home on the steep slopes of California's Sierra
Speaker 1: Nevada Mountains. And what does this sucker do if something
Speaker 1: threatened it, Well, it curls up, rolls away, or if
Speaker 1: it needs to get down that steep terrain really quickly.
Speaker 1: What's the best way to do it? Roll up, roll up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just then you're going down the hill. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: then all of your like internal origans are all protected too,
Speaker 1: because you know, not only from a predator, but if
Speaker 1: you're going down rocky terrain and you're bumping along the way,
Speaker 1: it makes sense that you would, you know, decrease the
Speaker 1: friction on your body and increase locomotion as you're going down. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's by these kind of rubbery too, so it
Speaker 1: absorbs the impact of the bounce. This it's not like
Speaker 1: if you were I would roll up in a ball
Speaker 1: and then head off down a steep slope. It would
Speaker 1: break us. But if we put a little salamander suit on, yeah,
Speaker 1: well maybe then and then we curled. I wonder if
Speaker 1: there's ever been a superhero that does this, has like
Speaker 1: a salamander suit, and they kind of do They can
Speaker 1: roll kind of like Metroid. I guess when they need
Speaker 1: a barrel over some enemies or get away from him.
Speaker 1: I like this, like Sally the Salamander superhero. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or by the way, it could be a great transhuman feature,
Speaker 1: Yes right, because I wouldn't mind that honestly, I could
Speaker 1: roll down some hills, yes, and there you know, And
Speaker 1: the cool thing about this is it's not just this
Speaker 1: one salamander that does it. There's also the pearl moth caterpillar,
Speaker 1: and this one does a similar thing. If it meets
Speaker 1: a predator, it anchors it's rear to the ground, recoils rapidly,
Speaker 1: and then rolls away backward like a tire mouth to tail.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it gets even better in this. It's like
Speaker 1: very start to start to slay. Is that when it
Speaker 1: rears up and it curls into that wheel, it does
Speaker 1: a it's kind of springs backwards, so it's a back
Speaker 1: flip into a like an inverted tire form, and then
Speaker 1: it rolls away. Yeah, and it's bright green and so
Speaker 1: it's sort of like beautiful and and then there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of music playing in the background of multicultural instruments. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so these are both creatures great examples of hoops
Speaker 1: snake like abilities in actual animals. Yeah. And the cool
Speaker 1: thing about that caterpillar is that it moves some forty
Speaker 1: times faster than its normal pace, and it goes from
Speaker 1: flat and stationary to rolling in about sixty milliseconds. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's an insane short amount of time. They're in fact um,
Speaker 1: this is inspired AI designers to look at this particular
Speaker 1: bit of biomimicry in robotics for that very reason. Alright,
Speaker 1: so we've talked about the wheeling around curling up, but
Speaker 1: I don't hear any tailbiting. Well, for tail bitting, we
Speaker 1: need to go to the armadillo girdled lizard, which was
Speaker 1: formerly known as prince no it's formally known as Cordialis catafractice,
Speaker 1: but now is or a Boris catafractice. So it's actually
Speaker 1: named for the world consuming serpent. Because this particular South
Speaker 1: African lizard, it's a small little guy six and a
Speaker 1: half to eight and a half inches or centimeters in length,
Speaker 1: and when threatened they curl up, they bite the tip
Speaker 1: of their tail and sort of hold themselves there. So
Speaker 1: when they're doing this they're curling up there, they're very spiny.
Speaker 1: They have all these spiny scales, so when they curl
Speaker 1: up in the ball like that, they're they're covering their
Speaker 1: vulnerable bellies. Yeah. I was thinking about how their names
Speaker 1: are so descriptive, the girdled lizard, the armadilla girdled lizard,
Speaker 1: because it really does look like these rowse girdling of
Speaker 1: plates that are fringed with those spiky points, and so
Speaker 1: as you say, when it curls up and it's just
Speaker 1: you don't even want to touch it, you don't even
Speaker 1: try to get to it soft under a belly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they look absolutely adorable. If you do a Google
Speaker 1: image search on these guys, or if you do a
Speaker 1: YouTube search, you'll probably find find a clip from one
Speaker 1: of Attonborough's BBC shows where he's blowing up and plucking
Speaker 1: one out of the rocks and holding it up because
Speaker 1: they'll they'll bite their little tails and they look like
Speaker 1: just an a door rble, like beautiful sculpted or a boris,
Speaker 1: and they'll remain that way for some time because they're threatened.
Speaker 1: So they're they're like, well, I'm not taking any chances.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay here biting my own tail, holding myself
Speaker 1: in place in this defensive posture until I know everything's clear.
Speaker 1: You know. In terms of design, I was thinking that
Speaker 1: they look like something Cleopatra would have worn. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she was that said bring me one of those visits
Speaker 1: to wrap around my wrists. And apparently they're a popular
Speaker 1: pet as well for some people. Now, of course, it's
Speaker 1: important to note that they while they are biting their
Speaker 1: own tail, they are not eating their own tail. We
Speaker 1: mentioned some examples of certainly zoocosis situations where an animal
Speaker 1: that is disturbed in some way, shape or form will
Speaker 1: start chewing on its tail. They're they're also tales of
Speaker 1: mammals and and other creatures that bite on their own
Speaker 1: tailor or eat part of their own tail. And it's
Speaker 1: generally just a sad case. But there there there are
Speaker 1: situations where eating your own tail is just perfectly okay
Speaker 1: and perfectly economical. I'm talking about, for instance, the leopard gecko,
Speaker 1: which is one of uh one of many um which
Speaker 1: is one of many of the lizards that can detached
Speaker 1: its own tail as a protective measure. You know, the deal.
Speaker 1: They're threatened, they jettison the tail, The tail flops around
Speaker 1: and spasms, and then they run off. It's on one level,
Speaker 1: it's like leaving a decoy behind to distract a predator.
Speaker 1: But also it's kind of a bribe, saying, look, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna eat me, but I'm gonna leave this delicious tail.
Speaker 1: And in fact, the tails tend to have a lot
Speaker 1: of resources in them. Uh So you know that's a
Speaker 1: it's a nice fatty piece of meat. So what happens
Speaker 1: if the gecko gets away and then comes back and
Speaker 1: finds that the predator that threatened it, or what it
Speaker 1: thought was a predator, the threat that did not eat
Speaker 1: that tail portion, Well, I mean that could be dinner, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean why wasted? It's just pure economy. You know,
Speaker 1: if you accidentally dropped twenty bucks out of your wallet
Speaker 1: and then you walked away, and you came back and
Speaker 1: nobody else had found it, you put that up back
Speaker 1: up and put it back in your wallet, and and
Speaker 1: the gecko does the same thing. It's like, well, if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna eat that piece of me that I
Speaker 1: dropped to bribe you, then I'm going to eat it
Speaker 1: myself and take those important nutrients and all that important
Speaker 1: energy back into myself, which is the basis of the
Speaker 1: arborous idea right off life sustaining it's giving up and
Speaker 1: sustaining itself in one fluid movement. So that's the and
Speaker 1: again it's a happier vision of animals eating themselves. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break, and when we get back
Speaker 1: we will talk about a storm arborous on Saturn. All right,
Speaker 1: We're back and we're going to talk about the storm
Speaker 1: that bit its own tail. This is so exciting to me. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is pretty crazy. So first of all, let's talk
Speaker 1: about storms here on Earth, particularly hurricanes. Okay, on Earth,
Speaker 1: a hurricane feeds off the energy of warm water, okay,
Speaker 1: and it leaves a cold water awake, and it just
Speaker 1: grows more and more and more powerful. We all know
Speaker 1: the deal with. Watch them move in, watching the weather
Speaker 1: channel and whatnot, and they grow more and more powerful,
Speaker 1: and then they hit land. And when they hit land,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of this struction. But then they lose
Speaker 1: their energy because mountains will they sort of include them, right,
Speaker 1: and their energy dissipates. Yeah, they can't. They can't feed
Speaker 1: off of the land. They need to feed off of
Speaker 1: the warm water. But Saturn, this massive planet that doesn't
Speaker 1: have these land forms that could impede storms, which happens
Speaker 1: all atmospheric disturbance. It's glorious. Yeah, And in this case,
Speaker 1: what you what you had happened and this this could
Speaker 1: Back in two thousand ten, this was Ford Well It's
Speaker 1: first detective December track by Cassini's radio and plasma wave
Speaker 1: subsystem and imaging cameras and a storm, massive storm erupts
Speaker 1: around thirty degrees north latitude and it begins to move
Speaker 1: and eventually, within months the storm wraps around the entire planet,
Speaker 1: stretching about one nine thousand miles or three thousand kilometers
Speaker 1: in circumference. Uh, thundering, throwing, lightning, just going crazy, just
Speaker 1: a type of storm of the intensity of which we
Speaker 1: can we can scarcely imagine here on Earth. And he
Speaker 1: goes all the way on the planet and reaches its beginning,
Speaker 1: reaches its tail. Yeah, because shortly after that that bright,
Speaker 1: turbulent head of the storm emerged this is according to
Speaker 1: fizz dot org and started moving west. It spawned a
Speaker 1: clockwise spinning vortex that drifted slowly. So you're talking about
Speaker 1: seven months, as you say, covering that one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety thousand miles or three hundred thousand kilometers in circumference,
Speaker 1: this massive stormhead meeting itself. And what happens when it
Speaker 1: meets itself, Well, like an r barus, it sort of
Speaker 1: disappears into itself and it's a it's a huge mystery
Speaker 1: to scientist because we're not quite sure why the storm
Speaker 1: would behave that way, but it's crazy. You can look
Speaker 1: up the images of this on online, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's you know, intense stormy the entire planet and thrashed
Speaker 1: for two hundred one days. And this is this is
Speaker 1: amazing to me. It's updraft erupted with an intensity that
Speaker 1: would have sucked out the entire volume of our atmosphere
Speaker 1: in one fifty days. That is how massive it is.
Speaker 1: That's a great word for it. But to be fair,
Speaker 1: I mean, Saturn is eighty three times larger than Earth,
Speaker 1: so we're talking about different stats here. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: just an entirely different kettle of fish when it comes
Speaker 1: to the atmospheric disturbances that can occur there, as is
Speaker 1: typified by on Jupiter. They're the great Red storm that
Speaker 1: of course looks like a giant red eye. That's that's
Speaker 1: an intensity of storm that again, it's just not even
Speaker 1: possible on Earth and scarcely can even be imagined by us.
Speaker 1: I know, I think I smell in episode of brewing here. Alright,
Speaker 1: So what other type of our bars do we have
Speaker 1: outside of nature? We have something called a nano ar borus,
Speaker 1: and chemists of the Script's Research Institute in California they
Speaker 1: created this nanotol which is an our brand molecular switch
Speaker 1: that looks like an oar borus. It's molecular tail coils
Speaker 1: up and around it, it's sort of like right up
Speaker 1: to its cup like head, and the molecule is used
Speaker 1: to detect metals, toxins, and other pollutants in our environment.
Speaker 1: It's really cool because it's default position is the r
Speaker 1: boris pocisition, but when it encounters a metal ion, its
Speaker 1: middle section bends around that ion and then that springs
Speaker 1: it open. So it's a good way to figure out
Speaker 1: whether or not um there are metallic impurities present, or
Speaker 1: if you've remediated an area of pollutants. Is a good
Speaker 1: way to go back and see if it's actually been
Speaker 1: completely removed from from that soil. And Ben Coxworth, writing
Speaker 1: for Gizmeg, made the effought very astute observation that the
Speaker 1: our borus, which is, as we have pointed out earlier
Speaker 1: associated with alchemy, has kind of come full circle with
Speaker 1: its ability to perhaps detect gold. Yeah, because what is
Speaker 1: nanotechnology if not some form of alchemy? You know, that's right?
Speaker 1: So now are we going to see people coming to
Speaker 1: beaches with these instead of the little metal detectors? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just unleash a little um of classroom for goo um.
Speaker 1: You know two other things here about the horra borus.
Speaker 1: One I was reminded by by Young's quote he mentions feedback.
Speaker 1: When you think of a feedback loop, a feedback loop,
Speaker 1: this is sort of an aa borous in its way
Speaker 1: in some own sense. You know. It's like sound leaves
Speaker 1: speaker goes back through the microphone into the same system
Speaker 1: and it just gets louder and louder and becomes that
Speaker 1: awful whining. I've also read some theories regarding wormholes, cosmic
Speaker 1: wormholes that a cosmic wormhole would create would create a
Speaker 1: feedback loop and then would destroy itself in the process,
Speaker 1: and much like our storm horra bors exactly and uh.
Speaker 1: And then there's another really cool thing that links our
Speaker 1: a borus and science a little bit uh here possibly
Speaker 1: And for this I want you to to want you to
Speaker 1: think about this all right, A glowing world serpent that
Speaker 1: encompasses the earth where we're might ancient man see something
Speaker 1: that that summons this idea, especially if you were to
Speaker 1: travel north or south. Oh, I don't know, Robert Lamley,
Speaker 1: it on me Aurora borealis. You know, I was reading
Speaker 1: a paper titled the Aura borus as an auroral phenomenon,
Speaker 1: and it argues that considering the antiquity of the theme
Speaker 1: and it's near universality, it's a geographic link with the
Speaker 1: outmost boundaries of the world descriptions of glowing and radiation.
Speaker 1: They the authors argued that it might just have its
Speaker 1: origins in a human observation of intense auroral phenomena, including
Speaker 1: a plasma instability type known as dio cotton instability, witnessed
Speaker 1: by humans towards the end of the Neolithic period. So
Speaker 1: you think that would further reinforce what they saw on
Speaker 1: their terrestrial world, which is, you know, perhaps a snake
Speaker 1: biting its own tail and then looking up at the
Speaker 1: sky illuminated snake in front of them. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I could I completely. I mean, they make
Speaker 1: a really nice argument for it in the paper. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I buy it, because it seems like
Speaker 1: an idea that it's so universal that it may stem
Speaker 1: from several different sources, you know. All right, So there
Speaker 1: you have it, the Aora borus, the hoop snake. Some
Speaker 1: real world and real off world examples of of how
Speaker 1: this actually occurs. How and how we may have thought
Speaker 1: it up to beginning. As always, we'd love to hear
Speaker 1: from everyone out there. What do you think? What do
Speaker 1: you think of the aora borus? What if your attachment
Speaker 1: to the oora borus? What do you think when you
Speaker 1: look at the symbol? Do you have a tattooed on
Speaker 1: your body? I know it's a pretty popular symbol out there,
Speaker 1: and there's a number of different artistic interpretations of it
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