The Northern Lights Make Music
The aurora sizzles with sound, and we can hear it on Earth. The post The Northern Lights Make Music appeared first on Nautilus.
Old stories about the Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, show the full play of human imagination at work across the sky. In Greenland some said the lights were the spirits of children who had died at birth but were now dancing in the heavens. Others said they were made by spirits playing ball with the skull of a walrus—or by walrus spirits kicking around human skulls. To the Algonquin people of eastern Canada, the lights were the reflection of fires lit by their creator, Nanabozho, to remind them that they are in his thoughts. In Finland they are still known as “fox fires” after a mythical fox whose tail sparks colorful flames in the sky as he runs across a snowy landscape.
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