Naturally, there are endless examples of native songs that reference to the aurora. These include books by writers such as Tim O’Brien, Howard Norman, Jennifer Donnelly and the New York Times best-selling author, Nora Roberts. There have also been several other novels with the title Northern Lights. It starred Nicole Kidman in 2007 and is currently a TV series by the BBC in Britain. The first book became a major Hollywood movie. The first novel in the series originally called “The Northern Lights” (1995), released in America as “The Golden Compass.” “The Subtle Knife” was released in 1997.
The Northern Lights inspired Phillip Pullman’s trilogy, “His Dark Materials.” Northern Lights Novelsīritish author Philip Pullman took up the idea of the Northern Lights having an association with the spirits of the dead in his trilogy of novels, “ His Dark Materials.” For Pullman, the Northern Lights formed by a mysterious substance called “dust,” and they form a bridge between multiple realities. In Native American tribes, they represent everything from the fire of creation to the spirits of the dead while in Finland, they are allegedly caused by the firefox running across the ice so fast that he causes sparks to fly up into the sky. Some tribes believe that they relieve the pain of childbirth while the Japanese believed that a child conceived beneath the aurora would have good fortune. In other cultures, the Northern Lights strongly associate with childbirth.
The Estonians believed they were a magnificent carriage carrying celestial guests to a heavenly wedding. In China, the lights were the result of fire-breathing dragons, fighting high up in the atmosphere. The lights resulted from her chariot racing across the sky to alert her siblings of the coming dawn. They were the gods of the sun and the moon. The Greeks believed that Aurora was the sister of Helios and Selene. With the aurora viewable from many different places in the Northern Hemisphere, many different explanations have existed. When there is no rational explanation for something, myths and stories will inevitably step in to fill the gap. The aurora has been around for a lot longer than our scientific understanding of the phenomena.
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