Aurora Borealis
by Photography by KO
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Aurora Borealis
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Photography by KO
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Nowadays, we’ve come to accept the scientific explanation of the northern lights: it’s a particulate reaction with the atmosphere influenced by Earth’s magnetic fields. Pretty simple, right?
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But when you’re standing right below them–staring straight up and watching the lights shimmer, dance, and change colors overhead–it becomes easy to understand why the aurora borealis is the subject of so many folk tales.
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It’s absolutely otherworldly.
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Stories come from places as far apart as Iceland, Greece, and China, and legends of what the aurora borealis represented vary just as much.
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In Iceland, the northern lights were thought to relieve the pain of childbirth, but only if the mother didn’t look directly at them. If she did, it was believed that she’d give birth to a cross-eyed child.
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February 1st, 2019
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