Re: Deandra (Egyptian Light Bulb)
Jim Shaffer, Jr. ( (no email) )
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:33:52 -0400
> Many Jewish scholars of the traditonal school identify "tsohar"
> as "a light which has its origins in a shining crystal." For
> centuries Hebrew tradition has described the "tsohar" as an
> enormous gem or pearl that Noah hung from the rafters of the ark,
> and which, by some power contained within itself, illuminated the
> entire vessel for the duration of the Flood voyage.
>
> Noah's light source seems to have been preserved in history
> for hundreds of years, for we find indications that King Solomon
> of Israel may have used it in about 1000 B.C. An Ancient Jewish
> manuscript entitled "The Queen of Sheba and Her only Son
> Menyelek," translated by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, contains this
> statement: "How the House of Solomon the King was illuminated as
> by day, for in his wisdom he had made shining pearls which were
> like unto the sun, the moon and the stars in the roof of his
> house."
That reminds me of how some of the 1890s "airships" displayed brilliant white
lights, and were said to have been powered by revolving metal globes.
Somewhere around here I have a reference to a city in the Malaysian jungle which
was reported to have been illuminated at night by glowing spheres set on top of
granite pillars, but it was a dim light like moonlight and thus probably a
different phenomenon. (I'm thinking that perhaps they found some sort of
natural electric field anomalies and placed phosphorescent substances at the
peaks.)
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