[guide.chat] 3 global dying birds and fish
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- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:40:51 +0100
Ichthyomancy : divination using fish, either by interpreting the appearance and
behaviour of fish. (A form of augury), or by interpreting the entrails of fish.
(A form of aruspicy.)
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The mass bird and fish die-offs that have affected parts of the U.S. over the
last week have now gone global, with Sweden, Brazil and New Zealand becoming
the latest countries to experience a phenomena that has sparked both scientific
intrigue and apocalyptic panic in equal measure. Following the sudden deaths of
thousands of birds that fell over Beebe Arkansas on New Year's Eve, in addition
to 100,000 dead fish found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and
Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County, 500 dead blackbirds and starlings were
subsequently discovered in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
Large numbers of dead birds were also found in Kentucky around Christmas and
more were found in the following days. Earlier this week, tens of thousands of
small fish were found washed up in the Chesapeake Bay area. Despite their
deaths being blamed on a cold snap, experts are bewildered that the fish didn't
swim to warmer waters as would be their normal response.
In New Zealand, hundreds of dead snapper have washed up on Coromandel beaches.
The fish looked fat and healthy, ruling out the weather or starvation as a
cause of death.
"People at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, on the north-east of the peninsula,
were stunned when children came out of the sea with armfuls of the fish and
within minutes the shore was littered with them," reports the Sydney Morning
Herald.
Meanwhile, in Brazil, 100 tons of fish (sardine, croaker and catfish) have
turned up dead off the coast of Parana over the course of the last week.
"Apart from Paranagua, (Edmir Manoel) Ferreira said the dead fish are starting
to appear in other coastal towns," reports Parana Online. "The dead fish are
going to Antonina, and Guaraqueçaba. We need an urgent solution to this," he
warned.
The number of different cases of dead birds and fish around the U.S. and
globally has been matched by the myriad of different explanations as to the
cause of their demise. While some theories are rooted in scientific verbiage,
others have taken on an altogether more spiritual and apocalyptic context.
The phenomenon has now gone global, with dead jackdaw birds falling to their
deaths across central Sweden shortly before midnight on Tuesday.
An example of one of the more esoteric theories behind the die-offs was
explained by controversial Pastor James David Manning, who labeled the
phenomena a "Global Katrina 2," and an act of "biological warfare," voicing his
belief that the strange sequence of die-offs was a harbinger of tribulation and
the biblical end times.
Web searches for bible prophecies and end time scenarios have exploded as some
Christians fear that the mass die-offs mark the beginning of a series of
catastrophes.
"Internet keyword searches continue to register off the charts. Queries like
"dead fish Bible," dead birds and fish Revelation," dead birds and fish die End
Times." were being entered by the million Tuesday," writes Jim Hagerty, with
forum moderators kept busy answering questions about the opening of the Seventh
Seal and whether or not a great pestilence will follow soon.
It seems unavoidable that the closer we get to 2012 and the onset of the widely
prophesied end times theory, where a series of cataclysmic or transformative
events will coincide with the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan
Long Count calendar, which will subsequently herald the end of the world or the
beginning of a new spiritual age, that every bizarre event will be cited as
evidence of this coming transformation.
The mass deaths of birds in particular strike a resonant chord within the human
psyche for a number of sociological and cultural reasons, not least of which is
the fact that they are often seen as an early warning system for harm that
could later come to human beings, which of course is where the term "canary in
the coal mine" originates.
The augur was a priest and official in the classical world, especially ancient
Rome and Etruria. His main role was to interpret the will of the gods by
studying the flight of birds: whether they are flying in groups/alone, what
noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of birds they
are. This was known as "taking the auspices." The ceremony and function of the
augur was central to any major undertaking in Roman society-public or
private-including matters of war, commerce, and religion.
The Roman historian Livy stresses the importance of the augurs: "Who does not
know that this city was founded only after taking the auspices, that everything
in war and in peace, at home and abroad, was done only after taking the
auspices?"
The derivation of the word augur is uncertain; ancient authors believed that it
contained the words avi and gero-Latin for "directing the birds"-but
historical-linguistic evidence points instead to the root aug-, "to increase,
to prosper."
'Come then,' Tarquin said angrily, 'Deduce when they make up in bed, if your
augury can, whether what I have in my mind right now is possible.' And when
Navius, expert in augury that he was, immediately said that it would happen,
Tarquin replied: 'Well, I thought that you would cut a whetstone with a sharp
knife. Here, take this and do what your birds have predicted would be
possible.' And Navius, hardly delaying at all, took the whetstone and cut it.
-Livy, 1.35.2
The story is illustrative of the role of the augur: he does not predict what
course of action should be taken, but through his augury he finds signs on
whether or not a course already decided upon meets with divine sanction and
should proceed.
In ancient Rome the auguria were considered to be in equilibrium with the sacra
("sacred things" or "rites") and were not the only way by which the gods made
their will known. The augures publici (public augurs) concerned themselves only
with matters related to the state.
According to Varro they used to distinguish five kinds of territory: ager
Romanus, ager Gabinus, ager peregrinus, ager hosticus, ager incertus: these
distinctions clearly point to the times of the prehistory of Latium and testify
the archaic quality of the art of augury.
The jus augurale (augural law) was rigorously secret, therefore very little
about the technical aspects of ceremonies and rituals has been recorded. We
have only the names of some auguria (augural rites): e.g. the augurium salutis
which took place once a year before the magistrates and the people, in which
the gods were asked whether it was auspicious to ask to for the welfare of the
Romans, the augurium canarium and the vernisera auguria. The first one required
the sacrifice of red dogs and took place before wheat grains were shelled but
not before they had formed. Of the second we know only the name that implies a
ritual of Springtime.
Augurium and auspicium are terms used indifferently by the ancient. Modern
scholars have debated the issue at length but have failed to find a distinctive
definition that may hold for all known cases. By such considerations Dumezil
thinks that the two terms refer in fact to two aspects of the same religious
act: auspicium would design the technical process of the operation, i.e. aves
spicere, looking at the birds. His result would be the augurium, i.e. the
determination , acknowledgement of the presence of the *auges, the favour of
the god(s), the intention and the final result of the whole operation. In
Varro's words "Agere augurium, aves specit", "to conduct the augurium, he
observed the birds". Since auguria publica and inauguations of magistrates are
strictly connected to political life this brought about the deterioration and
abuses that condemned augury to progressive and inarrestable debasement,
stripping it of all religious value.
The role of the augur was that of consulting and interpreting the will of gods
about some course of action such as accession of kings to the throne, of
magistrates and major sacerdotes to their functions (inauguration) and all
public enterprises.
The prototype of the ritual of inauguration of people is described in Livy's
relation of the inauguration of king Numa Pompilius. The augur asks Jupiter
(signa belong to Jupiter): "Si fas est... send me a certain signum", the augur
listed the auspicia he wanted to see coming. When they appeared Numa was
declared king.
Technically the sky was divided into four sections or regions: dextera,
sinistra, antica and postica (right, left, anterior and posterior).
Before taking the auspicia impetrativa ("requested" or "sought" auspices; see
below) the templum, or sacred space within which the operation would take place
had to be established and delimited (it should be square and have only one
entrance) and purified (effari, [[liberare).
The auspicia were divided into two categories: requested by man (impetrativa)
and offered spontaneously by the gods (oblativa). During a ceremony the
enunciation of the requested auspicia was technically called legum dictio.
Magistrates endowed by the law with the right of spectio (observation of
auspices) would establish the requested the auspicium. To the augur was
reserved the nuntiatio i.e. announcing the appearance of auspicia oblativa that
would require the interruption of the operation.
The science of interpretation of signs was vast and complex.
Only some species of birds (aves augurales) could yield valid signs[26] whose
meaning would vary according to the species. Among them were ravens,
woodpeckers, owls, oxifragae, eagles.
Signs from birds were divided into alites, from the flight, and oscines, from
the voice. The alites included region of the sky, height and type of flight,
behaviour of the bird and place where it would rest.
The oscines included the pitch and direction of the sound.
Since the observation was complex conflict among signs was not uncommon.
A hierarchy among signs was devised: e.g. a sign from the eagle would prevail
on that from the woodpecker and the oxifraga (parra).
Observation conditions were rigorous and required absolute silence for validity
of the operation.
Both impetrativa and oblativa auspices could be divided into five classes: ex
caelo (thunder,lightning), ex avibus, ex tripudiis (attitude to food and
feeding manner of the sacred chickens), ex quadrupedibus (dog, horse, wolf,
fox), ex diris (ominous events).
During the last centuries of the republic the auspices ex caelo and ex
tripudiis supplanted other types, as they could be easily used in a fraudulent
way, i.e. bent to suit the desire of the asking person. It sufficed to say that
the augur or magistrate had heard a clap of thunder to suspend the convocation
of the comitia.
Cicero condemned the fraudulent use and denounced the decline in the level of
knowledge of the doctrine by the augurs of his time.
In fact the abuse developed from the protective tricks devised to avoid being
paralysed by negative signs. For an instance see the conversation between king
Numa and Jupiter in Ovid, Fasti III, 339-344.
Against the negative auspicia oblativa the admitted procedures included:
1. actively avoiding to see them.
2. repudiare refuse them through an interpretative sleight of hands.
3. non observare by assuming one had not paid attention to them.
4. naming something that in fact had not appeared.
5. choosing the time of the observation (tempestas) at one's will.
6. making a distinction between observation and formulation (renunciatiatio).
7. resorting to acknowledging the presence of mistakes (vitia).
8. repeating the whole procedure.
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http://www.dimension1111.com/divination-methods.html.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_divination.
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Psyche-Out is a character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline,
comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. He is the G.I. Joe team's
deceptive warfare specialist and debuted in 1987. His real name is Kenneth D.
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posted to the Deceptive Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, and there continued his
pioneering work in the field of wave-induced behavior modification.
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and even if the dead birds were initially unintended it makes no difference
because it was a beautiful opportunity for a good psyop .. if you hear a story
being demonstrably exaggerated Ad nauseam by the foul Medea then it has been
made into a pysop
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In-AUGUR-ation.
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How Do Birds Navigate?
About 50 animal species, ranging from birds and mammals to reptiles and
insects, use Earth's magnetic field for navigation.
Yet Earth's magnetic field is very week. It ranges from approximately 30 to 60
millionths of one tesla. By comparison, magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI,
uses magnetic fields from 1.5 to 3.0 tesla.
So scientists unsure exactly how birds do it.
New research finds that a photochemical compass may simulate how migrating
birds use the magnetic field, along with light, to navigate.
One theory for how it all works has been that photoreceptors in a bird's retina
absorb light, which causes a chemical reaction that, in turn, produces a
short-lived photochemical species whose lifetime is sensitive to the magnitude
and direction of a weak magnetic field.
The idea is supported by the fact that blue light photoreceptors have been
detected in retinas of migratory birds when they perform magnetic orientation.
However, it has not been confirmed that a magnetic field as weak as Earth's can
produce detectable changes within a photochemical molecule; nor, has a
photochemical molecule been shown to respond to the direction of such a
magnetic field.
Until now.
A new study, funded by the National Science Foundation and detailed online in
the April 30, 2008 issue of the journal Nature, shows that the photochemical
model becomes sensitive to the magnitude and direction of weak magnetic fields
similar to Earth's when exposed to light.
A synthesized photochemical molecule composed of linked carotenoid (C),
porphyrin (P) and fullerene (F) units can act as a magnetic compass, the
researchers found. When excited with light, CPF forms a short-lived
charge-separated state with a negative charge on the ball-like fullerene unit
and a positive charge on the rod-like carotenoid unit. The charge-separated
state lasts only as long as the magnitude and direction the field stays
constant.
Why do scientists care about all this complex stuff?
Power lines and communications equipment also generate weak magnetic fields
that can disrupt animal navigation, so "it is essential for humans to
understand how animals navigate using Earth's weak magnetic field and the
effects of human activity on animal navigation," said Devens Gust, professor of
chemistry and biochemistry at Arizona State University.
Birds May See Earth's Magnetic Fields
Birds can travel the world without any of the gizmos that humans depend on, and
a new study suggests how: Our feathered friends might "see" Earth's magnetic
field.
While other mechanisms are thought to help birds navigate, including
magnetically sensitive cells within their beaks, their brain regions
responsible for vision are in full gear during magnetic navigation, researchers
said.
"If you look into the brain of a bird during magnetic compass orientation, only
the visual system is highly active," said study co-author Henrik Mouritsen, a
biologist at the University of Oldenburg in Germany, noting that most migratory
birds do so at night. "Other regions of the brain are not, so birds could use
vision to 'see' Earth's magnetism and orient themselves."
Mouritsen and his colleagues' findings are detailed online in a recent issue of
the journal PLoS ONE.
Magnetic chemistry
The researchers previously discovered molecules called cryptochromes, which
change their chemistry in the presence of a magnetic field, in the retinas of
migratory birds' eyes.
"When light hits these molecules, their chemistry changes and magnetism can
influence them," Mouritsen said. The molecules might then affect light-sensing
cells in the retina to create images, which would help the brain navigate
during flight, he added.
A direct connection between the specialized cells and the region of the bird's
brain active during magnetic orientation, however, had never been shown before.
Mouritsen and his team recently found such connections between the
cryptochrome-holding retinal cells and the "cluster N" region of migratory
birds' brains, located in part of the brain responsible for vision.
"Cluster N is highly active during magnetic field orientation at night, when
migratory birds fly," he said, explaining that non-migratory birds don't seem
to use it during night flight. "We can't see what birds see, obviously, but
they may pick up some sort of shading in their vision at night to act as a
compass."
No smoking gun
Mouritsen noted that while the work is exciting, it isn't direct proof that
they can actually "see" Earth's magnetism during migratory flights at night.
"If we could listen in on the neural connections between the retinal cells and
cluster N, and show they actually send magnetically-influenced signals to the
brain," Mouritsen said, "then that would be really compelling evidence that
they can see it."
Even if migratory birds can see Earth's magnetic field, he noted, plenty of
mysteries remain to explain their uncanny navigation.
"Birds also use the sun and stars to navigate, but we're not certain how,"
Mouritsen said. "How do they compute all of this information and end up with a
direction to fly in? There are so many steps in this process we simply don't
know about."
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