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More medicine wheels, lets go on down the tracks , in Winnipeg


I think the tracks look like a thunderbird



We find a yellow brick road leading to the Thunderbird House






The Circle of Life House
Thunderbird House welcomed the community to celebrate its opening in a sunrise-to-sunset day of ceremony, feast, honour and prayer on the vernal equinox, March 21st, 2000. The Whaka Pimadiziiwii Pinaysiiwigamic features four doorways representing all four people of the world by the colors of each doorway. North represents White, East represents Yellow, South represents Black and West represents Red. These are the four people of the world. There are no others. There is a blending of all these people and all are accepted.

The wingspan of the thunderbird was described to be twice as long as a Native Indian war canoe. Underneath its wings are lightning snakes which the thunderbird uses as weapons. Lightning is created when the thunderbird throws these lighting snakes or when he blinks his eyes that glow like fire. Sometimes these lightning snakes are depicted in Native American art as having wolf or dog-like heads with serpent tongues. They are occasionally referred to as the thunderbird's dogs. Native American art portrays the thunderbird with a huge curving beak and prominent ears or horns. The Thunderbird as the Phoenix with the lightening



It is one of the most consistent symbols of all aboriginals in North, Central and South America
This enormous design below the Hill Fort of Barbury Castle appears to be a direct representation of the 'Aztec Spirit Bird'. The Aztec's most important Gods were represented as Birds, and were right at the top of their pantheon of gods! Quetzalcoatl himself was also a (Bird - god) and is thought to return in 2012. Once again we have another powerful symbol within the fields with ancient connections.

Inside the Thunderbird house we find the focus again a 8 pointed star the same as in the Legislature House. Let's go further down the tracks and back in time again.





Happyland Park
(1906 - 1922?) Happyland was built on 13 hectares of land.I had to put this in just cause I love the name but it was also built by Masons and the construction is filled with the Fibonacci numbers 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, etc. See how many you can find.



I will not go into detail here on the ferris wheel. Here is a link to a post I did earlier, that explains and link to other sites for more information.
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showt...=ferris+wheels

http://projectavalon.net/forum/showt...=ferris+wheels


The modern day equivalent at the EXPO. Let's journey further down the yellow brick road.



Gold also the same symbol as the sun. The Canadian Mint's original refinery was completed in 1911. It rendered distinguished service to the British Empire throughout the Great War, producing the large quantities of gold bars with which Britain paid its debts to other countries.

A new refinery facility, designed to meet any possible demand for many years to come, was built in 1936 to refine gold for mines and central banks throughout the world. Still in operation today, the refinery has produced 9999 fine gold bars since 1969. In 1982, it became the world's first refinery to produce 9999 fine gold bullion coins. Then in 1999, the Mint excelled again by being the first to achieve 99999 fine gold purity.



The Royal Canadian Mint's proud history reached a new peak in 2007 with the Guinness World Records certification of the largest coin in the world: the masterpiece 100 kg, 99.999% pure $1 million gold bullion coin was originally conceived as a unique showpiece to promote the Mint's new line of 99999 pure 1 oz Gold Maple Leaf bullion coins. After several interested buyers came forward, the Mint decided to make a very limited quantity available for sale. To date, five of these majestic gold bullion coins, weighing 3,215 troy ounces each, have been purchased by investors from Canada and abroad.
More about the Queen pictured on the coin later and how this all ties together.

Further down the path we find another sun symbol, as the central point in this observatory.



The Oodena Circle is a circular shallow bowl measuring 60 metres across and 2.5 metres deep. This stone circle is geometrically aligned to the sunrise and sunset of the fall and spring equinox, and summer and winter solstices. Surrounding the circle are limestone monoliths depicting the solar system, Earth, wind, fire and water.

Located at the junction of Red and Assiniboine Rivers, Oodena Celebration Circle represents the rich heritage of Canada. This naturally shallow amphitheater pays tribute to the 6,000 year-old faded past of this place. As this has been a home to aborigines from old times, this center has a lot to offer to cherish the historical past. Ethereal sculptures, a sundial, a naked eye observatory and a ceremonial fire pit are some of the splendors at this circle.



The sculpture at the entrance to the Oodena Celebration Circle at the Forks in the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba is just the beginning to the historic past of Canada's heritage. Sculptures, a sundial, an observatory and a ceremonial fire pit are a few of the things to see while visiting this historical circle.

It pays homage to the 60,000 years of Aboriginal peoples in the area. Oodena, Cree for the centre of the city, features ethereal sculptures, a sundial, interpretive signage, a naked eye observatory and a ceremonial fire pit, making it a desirable venue for Aboriginal and cultural celebrations or a place to simply sit and marvel at its beauty.



Around the amphitheater, eight pairs of stone walls are positioned to enable observation of the summer and winter solstices, and vernal and autumnal equinoxes. The sun rises from the space between one pair of walls and sets between another on special days. Furthermore, sculptural armatures were set atop the walls to serve as guideposts for celestial orientation. These are arc-shaped slender steel pipes with rings through which certain constellations can be observed at certain times. Each armature is unique in shape and identifies different sets of stars throughout the year Once the design concept was determined, the landscape office added five astronomers, six surveyors, seven engineers, and specialists in set design, lighting, and acoustics to the design team. The astronomers analyzed the constellations that can be seen by the naked eyes in the city during the hours when people are enjoying the outdoors. In addition, a searchlight that sends a beam from stage to sky becomes a beacon for travelers coming to the city from afar. People can determine the direction to the site by looking to the sky, navigating as their ancestors once did.

These waterways were early avenues of transportation not only for Europeans but also for aboriginals. Indeed the name “Winnipeg” comes from the aboriginal word “win,” meaning muddy, and “nipee,” meaning waters. As early as 4000 B.C, people camped at The Forks as a rest stop on seasonal migration routes from the northern forests to the southern plains. Between 1734 and 1760, as European fur traders arrived, The Forks became a fur-trading outpost for First Nations peoples and Europeans. Between 1760 and 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company competed for furs. Both fur trading companies used The Forks to store and ship supplies to trappers and furs to traders. By 1821, the competing fur companies had amalgamated into the Hudson's Bay Company.

This is just to show how huge the territory the HBC, Hudson's Bay Company held

Back to Celestial Matters



The phases of the moon are caused by the relative positions of the earth, sun, and moon. The moon goes around the earth, on average, in 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes. The sun always illuminates the half of the moon facing the sun (except during lunar eclipses, when the moon passes through the earth's shadow). When the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the earth, the moon appears "full" to us, a bright, round disk. When the moon is between the earth and the sun, it appears dark, a "new" moon. In between, the moon's illuminated surface appears to grow (wax) to full, then decreases (wanes) to the next new moon






There is the steady movement of the stars but there is always the unexpected, that would cause fear or dread that the cycle of life through the seasons would be disrupted and bring death and destruction.





Something could happen once in a blue moon


Rare visibly blue moon with Jupiter and four of it's moons to the left

When two full moons occur in any calendar month, the second is called a blue moon. The term (in its modern usage) therefore has nothing to do with the Moon's actually color. A blue moon occurs about once in 2.5 years on average



Visibly blue moon
The most literal meaning of blue moon is when the moon (not necessarily a full moon) appears to a casual observer to be unusually bluish, which is a rare event. The effect can be caused by smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere, as has happened after forest fires in Sweden and Canada in 1950 and, notably, after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, which caused the moon to appear blue for nearly two years.



But blue moons, and blue suns in brownish skies, do happen. One of the best-documented occurrences this century happened during September 1950, and caused a storm of flying saucer reports from Canada to England.
"The skies took on strange colors; there was an eerie sort of light, followed in some places by almost complete darkness.... Shades varying from pink and orange to yellow and brown were used to describe the sky.... The sun disc when visible appeared blue or purple. As it appeared and disappeared through breaks in the clouds it seemed to be in motion -- hence the basis for the impression of flying saucers." The incident was reported thus in the scientific journal, Weather.
An alternative interpretation uses the other old English meaning of "belewe" (which can mean "blue" or "betrayer").The church was responsible for the calendar and used the complex computus to calculate the important date of Easter, which is based on the full moon. Lent falls before Easter starting at the beginning of the Lent moon cycle (late winter moon). The next moon is the egg moon (early spring moon), and Easter usually falls on the first Sunday after the full egg moon. Every one to three years the Lent and egg moons would come too early, so the clergy would have to tell people whether the moon was the Lent moon or a false one, which they may have called a "betrayer moon"

Calendar
Two full moons in one month

* 2009: December 2, December 31
* 2012: August 2, August 31
* 2015: July 2, July 31



SEASONAL VARIATIONS: Native American tribes in the northern and eastern United States provided a number of names for various full moons. They used them to keep track of the seasons. For instance, the Full Harvest Moon -- occurring this year on September 26 -- is the nearest full moon to the fall equinox, indicating the best time for the harvest. On the Full Beaver Moon, it was time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, ensuring a good supply of pelts for winter furs. Other tribes knew it was time for spring planting during the Full Corn Planting Moon, occurring this year on May 2.





Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights is a luminous phenomenon in the night sky consisting of overlapping curtains of greenish-white light, sometimes fringed with pink, appearing in the ionosphere of high latitudes. It is caused by the emission of light by atoms and molecules that are excited by beams of electrons generated by a complex interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s atmosphere.





Hale Bopp comet
The auroras which occurred as a result of the "great geomagnetic storm" on both August 28 and September 2, 1859 are thought to be perhaps the most spectacular ever witnessed throughout recent recorded history.

The aurora is thought to have been produced by one of the most intense coronal mass ejections in history, very near the maximum intensity that the Sun is thought to be capable of producing. It is also notable for the fact that it is the first time where the phenomena of auroral activity and electricity were unambiguously linked. This insight was made possible not only due to scientific magnetometer measurements of the era but also as a result of a significant portion of the 125,000 miles (201,000 km) of telegraph lines then in service being significantly disrupted for many hours throughout the storm. Some telegraph lines however, seem to have been of the appropriate length and orientation which allowed a current (geomagnetically induced current) to be induced in them (due to Earth's severely fluctuating magnetosphere) and actually used for communication. The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American Telegraph Line between Boston and Portland, Maine, on the night of September 2, 1859 and reported in the Boston Traveler:

Boston operator (to Portland operator): "Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes."
Portland operator: "Will do so. It is now disconnected."
Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?"
Portland: "Better than with our batteries on. - Current comes and goes gradually."
Boston: "My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble."
Portland: "Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?"
Boston: "Yes. Go ahead."

The conversation was carried on for around two hours using no battery power at all and working solely with the current induced by the aurora, and it was said that this was the first time on record that more than a word or two was transmitted in such manner. Such events led to the general conclusion that

The effect of the Aurora on the electric telegraph is generally to increase or diminish the electric current used in working the wires. Sometimes it entirely neutralizes them, so that, in effect, no fluid is discoverable in them . The aurora borealis seems to be composed of a mass of electric matter, resembling in every respect, that generated by the electric galvanic battery. The currents from it change coming on the wires, and then disappear: the mass of the aurora rolls from the horizon to the zenith. If a flare liked that occurred now it would be catastrophic as it would take down most of the grids.

These are all spectacular celestial events but not the ones I am looking for.
To be continued