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Chapter 4. The Sky Connection 94
Some even pull a little from the jewish Qabalah, a little from Assyrian astrology, a
little “channeled info from the Pleiedians” to be able to come up with highly complex
systems and charts complete with lines and circles to “make everything fit.” The
current descriptions of the Germanic universe have become rather complex, but for
all the knowledge available, it is not known how these ancient people truly visualized
the World Tree and its homes.
It is in the modern interpretation of the underworld, the World Tree, and the sky
connection that there is a dire need for the liberal application of Occam’s Razor. The
most recent “Germanic maps” of Yggdrasil contain nine separate worlds connected
by lines and arrows despite the fact that no such ancient depictions have ever been
found either in written form or pictorially. The Teutons most likely started by
observing the universe around them. 7 They lived within a cosmos which was ever
moving and changing, and learned to keep pace with the moving world around them.
If the modern scientist starts with observation, he finds very quickly that symmetry
and balance are but fleeting points in time, for not only does Nature abhor a vacuum,
she also is not very fond of stasis. Without a static universe, lines and circles, no
matter how pretty they look, are not of much use.
Watching the sky at night is an ancient pastime, still enjoyed by millions today
which can be educational, fun, and almost addictive especially when one has a
copy of Peterson’s A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets in hand. One can sit
outside on a summer’s evening for hours hanging names onto little points of light,
naming groups of stars, and drawing mental pictures much the same way the ancient
Babylonians or Romans did.
Book in hand, one notices two things right away: 1) the hazy path of the Milky
Way is blatantly obvious even in many cities, and 2) it moves. Another curious thing
about this aggregation of stars that goes unobserved by many, if not most, is that
at midnight at the winter solstice it faces almost exactly north and south. Through
the progression of the months (when observed at the same time each night), this
stripe of stars continues to change shape and rotate in a clockwise fashion so that
around April 1st it is east and west with the section shaped like a “Y” whose “arms”
touch the eastern horizon. It continues to rotate on an apparent central axis so that
around October 15th it is centered again east and west with the arms of the “Y” to
the west. All these configurations are seen only at midnight. 8
7 See any of the books written by Edred Thorsson. Most of his books utilize a diagram of
the World Tree which more closely resemble the quaballistic ”Tree of Life.” Many of the modern
writers apparently have a background in the Quaballah which is not well suited for understanding
northern European concepts.
8 This phenomenon is readily observable using any commercial ”Star-Finder.” This rotating
star map is available at most good ”chain” bookstores around the United States such as B. Dalton’s
or Waldenbooks.