Polaris

for there the coast turns sharp where the great Miskatonic pours out of the plains past Arkham, bringing woodland legends and little quaint memories of New England's hills.

The seafolk in Kingsport look up at that cliff as other seafolk look up at the Polestar and time the night's watches by the way it hides or shows the great bear, Cassiopeia, and the dragon.

Among them it is one with the firmament, and truly it is hidden from them when the mist hides the stars or the sun some of the cliffs they love as that whose grotesque profile they call father neptune or that whose pillared steps they term the causeway but this one they fear because it is so near the sky The Portuguese sailors coming in from a voyage cross themselves when they first see it, and the old Yankees believe it would be a much graver matter than death to climb it, if indeed that were possible.

Nevertheless, there is an ancient house on that cliff, and at evening men see lights in the small paned windows.

The fall of man after the eating of that forbidden fruit from that tree in the garden.

Where does that come from? Where does the tree come from? Where does the river come from? Where does the garden come from? Well, let's talk about Polaris for a moment.

Polaris, the North Star.

Contrasted with the polar star of the south, the north and south are what some refer to as the stellar mythology of the ancients.

The stellar mythology of the ancients had these two poles which are the axis mundi.

And the stellar mythology transformed into lunar and solar, because when that middle was transformed and split, It was split by the equinoxes.

And the equinoxes form the cross and the four quadrants, the four elements.

And when you look at Polaris, then as now, Polaris is the brightest star in Ursa Minor.

That's where we have a different North Pole geographically on Earth.

But that pole still points at Polaris.

So it's a different type of rotation than we see with the planet Venus or the planet Uranus.

Those have, and this confuses people the most, and naturally so, because it's somewhat abstract in terms of understanding how these two are different.

That's an axial obliquity tilt.

That is where the rotational pole no longer points at Polaris.

This is an added energy state rotation, this state that Venus and Uranus are in.

That's where the planet actually tilts, an obliquity tilt.

But your eyes, they're still lying to you.

Yeah, ever mark out the little dipper and tell someone that Polaris is the brightest star in the sky? Liar! It's about the 50th.

Sirius is the brightest.

But we rank Polaris higher than it should be because it's the North Star.

People still use it for navigation.

A sub-lie, Polaris is actually a triple star, not just one.

But you can't tell with the naked eye because it's 450 light years from Earth.

Sub-sublie? You may have told someone that it's a yellow supergiant.

Chapter 12.

Italy Claims the Record For the first time in the history of their country, the Italians entered the field of Arctic exploration in the year 1899, when an expedition under the command of the Duke of Abruzzi sailed in the Stella Polare and by means of dogs and sledges carried the Italian flag to higher latitudes than any other explorers had succeeded in reaching.

The record up to the time of this expedition was that set by Nansen, who with his companion Johansson attained 86 degrees 14 minutes north.

The Italians reached 86 degrees 34 minutes north, or 20 geographical miles further north than the Norwegians.

Yet with all these advantages, they only reached 20 miles further, an achievement not to be compared with that of Nansen and Johansson.

The expedition practically commenced its journey from Archangel, whence good progress was made to Cape Flora, a food depot being established in the huts of the Jackson-Harmsworth party, which were found still standing intact.

After an ineffectual attempt to pass through Nightingale Sound, the Stella Polare got out of the ice on August 7th and succeeded in reaching 82 degrees 4 minutes north latitude in open water.

This was to the north of Prince Rudolf Island.