Re: Rhythm of Time: Telluric Currents
To avoid interuption of your thread, Timelord, decided to answer your question ;
How do you think telluric currents can be harnessed for time travel?
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It wouldn't necessarily be harnessing the Telluric Currents for time travel, but, taking advantage of a temporal portal that may already exist "because of" the Telluric Currents.
The portal would be time dependent, and may only exist when specific conditions are met.
It seems to me, that the more important question was that as posted above. Assuming that the Karankawa being encountered are "in the past" and that the lineman is in the "present", if due to some sort of temporal fold in the Telluric fields, caused a temporal window, why is it that the lineman stayed in his present, and the Karankawa stayed in their present ?
In giving this question some thought, it occured to me that each of them were bound by these 7 "ingredients" within their respective here and now's.
1. Resonance
2. Rhythm
3. Melody
4. Harmony
5. Pitch
6. Timbre
7. Toning
Further research into the behaviour of the Telluric Currents, also yields explainations of numerous anomalies, such as the Bermuda Triangle. The Telluric Currents can be horizontal,and or vertical, and are measured as such. Imagine if there are periods of some sort of spike, as experienced with the transatlantic cable mentioned in both of the materials linked in my post within (your) TimeLords Poll Thread.
What effect would such a spike ( or short-circuit, of sorts ) have on any form of transportation using electronics and/or that has electrical circuits ?
It is also mentioned in the website regarding Geomagnatism that the currents are being studied for use by several organization's, including the DoD.
The USGS Geomagnetism Program
Large storms can cause the loss of radio communication, reduce the accuracy of global-positioning systems, damage satellite electronics and affect satellite operations, enhance radiation levels for astronaut and high-altitude pilots, increase pipeline corrosion, and induce voltage surges in electric power grids, causing blackouts.
( Hmm..what else could 'large storms' do, and to 'what' ? )
The mission of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geomagnetism Program is to monitor the Earth’s magnetic field. Using ground-based observatories, the Program provides continuous records of magnetic field variations covering long timescales; disseminates magnetic data to various governmental, academic, and private institutions; and conducts research into the nature of geomagnetic variations for purposes of scientific understanding and hazard mitigation. The Program is an integral part of the U.S. Government’s National Space Weather Program (NSWP), which also includes programs in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense (DOD), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSWP works to provide timely, accurate, and reliable space weather warnings, observations, specifications, and forecasts, and its work is important for the U.S. economy and national security. (
USGS Geomagnetic Program Summary )
To also quote from Wikipedia :
A telluric current is an electric current which moves underground or through the sea. Telluric currents result from both natural causes and human activity, and the discrete currents interact in a complex pattern.
To further the hypothesis relative to the encounters with Native Americans that no longer exist in this time period, and someone is able to achieve a frequency signature(s) that ( whether by accident or on purpose ) matches the frequency signature(s) of the Karankawa's time period.
Will that result with that individual in staying in any given time period ?
IF it is planned out, and once the individual is within the past, has a goal of making their way to specific locations, such as traveling to the Hopi Tribal Lands...we would end up with modern day myths such as this :
Pahana (or Bahana) is the Lost White Brother of the Hopi. Most versions have it that the Pahana or Elder Brother left for the east at the time that the Hopi entered the Fourth World and began their migrations. However, the Hopi say that he will return again and at his coming the wicked will be destroyed and a new age of peace, the Fifth World, will be ushered into the world. As mentioned above, it is said he will bring with him a missing section of a sacred Hopi stone in the possession of the Fire Clan, and that he will come wearing red. Traditionally, Hopis are buried facing eastward in expectation of the Pahana who will come from that direction.
( Source - Wikipedia -
Hopi Mythology )
The following extraordinary Hopi prophecy was first published in a mimeographed manuscript that circulated among several Methodist and Presbyterian churches in 1959. Some of the prophecies were published in 1963 by Frank Waters in The Book of the Hopi. The account begins by describing how, while driving along a desert highway one hot day in the summer of 1958, a minister named David Young stopped to offer a ride to an Indian elder, who accepted with a nod. After riding in silence for several minutes, the Indian said:
"My people await Pahana, the lost White Brother, [from the stars] as do all our brothers in the land. He will not be like the white men we know now, who are cruel and greedy. we were told of their coming long ago. But still we await Pahana.
"He will bring with him the symbols, and the missing piece of that sacred tablet now kept by the elders, given to him when he left, that shall identify him as our True White Brother.
"The Fourth World shall end soon, and the Fifth World will begin. This the elders everywhere know. The Signs over many years have been fulfilled, and so few are left.
"This is the First Sign: We are told of the coming of the white-skinned men, like Pahana, but not living like Pahana men who took the land that was not theirs. And men who struck their enemies with thunder.
"This is the Second Sign: Our lands will see the coming of spinning wheels filled with voices. In his youth, my father saw this prophecy come true with his eyes -- the white men bringing their families in wagons across the prairies."
"This is the Third Sign: A strange beast like a buffalo but with great long horns, will overrun the land in large numbers. These White Feather saw with his eyes -- the coming of the white men's cattle."
"This is the Fourth Sign: The land will be crossed by snakes of iron."
"This is the Fifth Sign: The land shall be criss-crossed by a giant spider's web."
"This is the Sixth sign: The land shall be criss-crossed with rivers of stone that make pictures in the sun."
"This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and many living things dying because of it."
"This is the Eight Sign: You will see many youth, who wear their hair long like my people, come and join the tribal nations, to learn their ways and wisdom.
"And this is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear of a dwelling-place in the heavens, above the earth, that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear as a blue star. Very soon after this, the ceremonies of my people will cease.
"These are the Signs that great destruction is coming. The world shall rock to and fro. The white man will battle against other people in other lands -- with those who possessed the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns of smoke and fire such as White Feather has seen the white man make in the deserts not far from here. Only those which come will cause disease and a great dying.
"Many of my people, understanding the prophecies, shall be safe. Those who stay and live in the places of my people also shall be safe. Then there will be much to rebuild. And soon -- very soon afterward -- Pahana will return. He shall bring with him the dawn of the Fifth World. He shall plant the seeds of his wisdom in their hearts. Even now the seeds are being planted. These shall smooth the way to the Emergence into the Fifth World.
"But White Feather shall not see it. I am old and dying. You -- perhaps will see it. In time, in time..." ( Source - Crystallinks -
Hopi Prophecies )
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IF someone did indeed make it through, into the past, in order to travel to the Hopi Tribal Lands to fulfill the Hopi Myths, would mean traveling through some hostile country. Even upon arrival, if the departure point is within the Trinity Bay region, hostile Native Americans there could pose a big problem.
One way to avoid some of the hostilities, would be to appear as a mythical figure. This might be enough to avoid conflict with most of the "superstitious" Native American people encountered during the traveling across the country.
Odd that a white man showed up in the Hopi Tribal Lands, wouldn't you say ? And what he told the Hopi's, could be told by someone that knew these events would take place because Pahana was from some point in the future.
Pahana sounds like a time traveler, who tries to change the present through the past.
I do, of course, question the list of signs as presented in the Crystal links site ; A mimeographed copy of "what Pahana said" could easily have been made up long after the real Pahana actually visited the Hopi Tribe in the past, and whomever "The Lost White Brother" was; Might NOT have actually said those things as listed.
But, still, have to wonder who Pahana was ? and where did he come from ?
I believe there are clues to those questions, but will save those for later. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif