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[Denthúl]

That is beautiful.

[SennaVille]

OOOhhhhhhhhhhh! AAAAaaaahhhhhh! Beauty!

Whenever I see pics or vids of Auroras though, I always feel a small twinge of sympathy for our caveman ancestors. Poor things must have been like.. WTF??

[vaptin]

Whenever I see pics or vids of Auroras though, I always feel a small twinge of sympathy for our caveman ancestors. Poor things must have been like.. WTF??

I've probably just had too much sugar, but thats an interesting concept. Would it be anymore extraordinary than the sun rising every morning, seeing the moon, watching a bird fly, having snow fall for the first time, or a lightening storm?

Maybe it depends on if they saw it as children, or when they had been more rooted in their idea of the world, but did cavemen ever achieve a "rootedness" similar to modern man? After all in the Western world we're thrown into education, have access to books, tv the internet, maybe cavemen were more used to seeing unusual natural phenomanoa (damn long words) then we were, even in adulthood.

[SennaVille]

Whenever I see pics or vids of Auroras though, I always feel a small twinge of sympathy for our caveman ancestors. Poor things must have been like.. WTF??

I've probably just had too much sugar, but thats an interesting concept. Would it be anymore extraordinary than the sun rising every morning, seeing the moon, watching a bird fly, having snow fall for the first time, or a lightening storm?

Maybe it depends on if they saw it as children, or when they had been more rooted in their idea of the world, but did cavemen ever achieve a "rootedness" similar to modern man? After all in the Western world we're thrown into education, have access to books, tv the internet, maybe cavemen were more used to seeing unusual natural phenomanoa (damn long words) then we were, even in adulthood.

OOh! Nice post!

Yeah, but we understand the physics/science behind such phenomena. We know that the magnetic field is behind auroras, tornadoes are caused by... whatever causes tornadoes Our ancestors probs had loads of folklore and oral history, so they weren't too freaked out by strange happenings. But they were still very much in the dark about what was behind the thunder and lightening.

Everything must have seemed so supernatural and portentious (damn long word!), and just plain spooooky.

[vaptin]

Good point with the idea of myths and folklore. An adult caveman will possibly have already been told by his elders as a child, so won't be too shocked, or when confronted by something new, use folklore to explain it. An advantage over a modern adult perhaps, quite possibly a necessary one for caveman psychologically.

Advanced civilisations, would use science to try and explain these things, but I don't think anyone will disagree its far harder to grasp and intuitively accept the science behind most things than it is to simply believe in the folklore explanation.