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A change of reason

""Fu-Pao, the mother of the Yellow Empire Shuan-Yuan, saw strong lightning moving around the star Su, which
belongs to the constellation of Bei-Dou, and the light illuminated the whole area. After that she became pregnant.""
.. oldest written reference to northern Lights approximately 2,600 BC ..

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"Plutarch gave an absolutely sure description of the northern lights in 467 BC but it was probably just a quotation from missing writings of Anaxagoras: "During seventy days there was an enormous and furious figure in the sky. It was like a flaming cloud, which did not stay at its position but moved windingly and regularly, so that the glowing fragments were flying in all directions and fire was blazing as the comets do. Those fragments came loose during rushing and unexpected movements.""
http://finland.fi/Nature_Environment/aurora/history2.html

Ezekiel NIV
4I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,

5and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human,

6but each of them had four faces and four wings.

7Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.
http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/1.htm

The northern lights seen on the 3rd of March, 451 were connected to the historic defeat of Attila at Chalons-sur-Marne, in what is now France.

Often, the blood of martyrs flowing up into the sky was seen in the northern lights. Such was the case when Thomas Becket died in 1177.
http://finland.fi/Nature_Environment/aurora/history4.html

In the 17th century, the northern lights were given their scientific name - Aurora Borealis. The credit for the name has been given to a French mathematician, Gassend, even though he did not use it before 1649. Galileo Galilei and his student Guiducci were already using the name Aurora Borealis in 1616 and after that several times in 1622 when describing the famous northern lights, which occurred during the previous year.

After the northern lights of the year 1621, the auroras were missing almost totally during the next hundred years. There were no sunspots at all observed in the sun during that time. Nobody knows if it was just a coincidence

that at the same time the whole weather system of the earth was in a slightly messy phase. That period is known as the Maunder minimum. It was ended dramatically by the enormous northern lights of the 17th of March, 1716.

The first scientific results are achieved

An English scientist, Sir Edmund Halley, saw the most beautiful aurora of the 18th century in 1716. He lived during the Maunder minimum. Halley explained the aurora thus: "Auroral rays are due to the particles, which are affected by the magnetic field; the rays are parallel to Earth's magnetic field, and the vault like shape is due to perspective phenomena." This is the first scientific finding which was accepted at that time and still holds true. Halley is of course not known for the aurora but Halley's comet, the movement of which he was able to forecast.
http://finland.fi/Nature_Environment/aurora/history5.html

.. while reason(s) for war and why young men (and more women now) go to war has perhaps changed very little ..

ISIS and the Real Reason Why Young Muslim Men Join the Jihad
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