Got captain cooks position a bit wrong he seems to have got to the worlds 3rd Georgia (USA, ex soviet) south Georgia. Only about 55 degrees south but due to the Antarctic convergence the winter Antarctica pack ice reaches it,or did?he was probably the first human to get to that island and later it was to be the saviour of Irishman sir Ernest shakelton approaching from the south.

 

FWIW, with our most recent solar eclipse I also made a lot of noise when it happened and it seems to have worked and the Sun started to shine again! So there may be something to this giant frog thing

 

Geeze Reggie! Not too many folk can pull Shakelton out of 'The Air!' Or South Georgia for that matter.....

In A Nation of Pinheads -

Dave

 

I realize this thread is a couple months old, but I would like to recommend a good book for those interested in star lore of various cultures. (And no, I'm not associated with the author in any way.)

https://www.amazon.com/New-Patterns-Sky-Myths-Legends/dp/0939923041

It doesn't include all star lore for all cultures, of course, but it offers a nice overview of how different cultures viewed constellations.

I find it great as reference material when doing outreach. When someone shows interest in a particular constellation, I will briefly point out how different cultures viewed these particular stars. It seems to make the constellation more memorable to them if they can associate a story with it.

 

Thanks. Always appreciate good book recommendations!

 

The culture of Laos makes much of Frogs, as do the Cherokee. But I've managed to forget quite a bit of it. Anyone familiar with the culture of Laos? It would be interesting to line-up.

I have a certain long-standing hunch.....Which I won't go into. Yet.

Dave

 

Hi mmac54. I took your name to be the more common Mic Maq. I know some great Mic Maq folk who worked with me - Santee Claws - on political actions on the peoples' rights. Wonderful people who risked their lives doing what we had to do. Long story short: Involving multi-billion $$$ contracts of the BIA to sell the uranium-deposits under Big Mountain (Black Mesa) to the Japanese for fueling breeder-reactors.

Can you say: "Fukishima?" Mother Earth wasn't very happy of the treaty we made with the United Nations' Human Rights Council - where we got the U.S. to sign onto a new treaty to stop 'em dead in their tracks - being broken. In two years, the US broke it and shredded it and brought in the army.

Not a surprise.

Dave