Re: Deandra (Egyptian Light Bulb)
LARRY SULLIVAN ( polymercanada@bc.sympatico.ca )
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:50:35 -0700
This is all very interesting but in all likelyhood if they discouvered
the oddities of phosporous it would not take much to have a low glow
phosporous light charged from the sun.
Jim Shaffer, Jr. wrote:
>
> > 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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