When the end of the world will come, the North and South poles will change places. The Pawnee Indians believe that the future destruction of the world depends on the planet Venus. The planet Venus established the present order on the earth and placed the north and south polar stars in their places. After the dramatic events of the time of Exodus, the earth was shrouded in dense clouds for decades, and observation of stars was not possible The clouds that enveloped the Israelites in the desert, the trumpet like sounds that they heard at Mount Sinai, and the gradual lifting of the clouds in the years of the Shadow of Death are the same elements that we find in this Indian legend. "It was then that the people regulated anew the reckoning of days, nights, and hours, according to the difference in time." The sequence of seasons and the duration of days and nights became disarranged. The catastrophe of the time, when the sun remained for more than a day in the sky of the old world. The cataclysm, accompanied by a prolonged darkness, the days of the Exodus, when a tempest of cinders darkened the world disturbed in its rotation. The sky, to show its anger, caused to perish a great number of people who died of famine and pestilence.The Earth had convulsions overwhelmed by a deluge. The sun was attacked by Quetzal-cohuatl after the disappearance of this serpent shaped heavenly body, the sun refused to shine, and during four days the world was deprived of its light. All these elements were not brought together in this Indian narrative by sheer invention.Īncient Mexican records give the order of the occurrences. He came flowing and blowing he looked like an enormous bat with wings spread,and his feathers waved up and down.They grew till they could touch the sky on both sides. Water rose mountain high."Ī celestial monster flew with `a whistle in his mouth, as he moved forward he blew it with all his might, and made a terrible noise. Water rushed in, it rushed in like a crowd of rivers, covered the earth, and put out the fire as it rolled on toward the south. The great fire was blazing, roaring all over the earth, burning rocks, earth, trees., people, burning everything. Great rolls and piles of smoke were rising fire blew up toward the sky in flames, in great sparks and brands. Seven times the sun was lifted higher arid higher under the sky arch, until it became cooler."In the burning world one could see nothing but waves of flames rocks were burning, the ground was burning, everything was burning. The sun was put "a handbreadth" higher in the air, but it was still too hot.
According to the Indians of North America the `shooting star' and the `fire drill' set the world aflame."It was too hot.
World conflagration is a frequent motif in folklore. Many peoples speak of a "lower sky" in the past, a "larger sun," a swifter movement of the sun across the firmament, a shorter day that became longer after the sun was arrested on its path. "The Birth Of Venus" by: Sandro Botticelli (1485-86)
Venus in the Folklore of the World Peoples
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