Questions at a talk by one Mr. Miller, about Chinese catstrophic iconography. Raspil: One other thing, if I may: There's something in China called ... I thought it was pronounced "chi," but I understand it's pronounced "ki," which refers to some sort of emanation which, according to a history of Chinese astrology ... Derek Walters, was not quite sure of what it referred to. Do you know anything about that? Yes, the emperor would examine the ki or the chi at the time of the equinox and the solstice, and it seems like some sort of, perhaps, an electric emanation or a psychic thing. Do you know anything about that? Miller: Not specifically, and I don't know how to pronounce it, either. I say the words, but which tone that it's in, I'm not always certain. So a Chinese might not even know what I'm talking about, but if I gave the character, they'd immediately know what I was talking about. The only thing I can say about the chi or ki, is the emanation, the spirit ... Isn't this what you're talking about? Raspil: Yes, but it also looks like a physical phenomenon when it's observed in the early B.C. period. Miller: Yes, right, right. In the records, all of these terms ... I wasn't just meaning "breath" [but] Heaven's "breath." And, is it associated with a phenomena like electricity or fire? The answer is "yes," in its proper domain, in the heavens. The chi of heaven. Events can happen in heaven, electricity or something. That's the chi of heaven. So a particular event that was classified as that, I can't think of ... Raspil: It seemed that it was a common phenomenon and it was observed by a lot of sources in China, again, around the time of Christ, at least, the Han Dynasty. Miller: I'm sorry I really can't think of what that source might be off hand. Raspil: Maybe ... I think in Suma Chien (sp?), again. Miller: Suma Chien (sp?)? Well, he's the best authority there is ... He's the Herodotus of the East, though he, too, may have made a few errors he's probably the most reliable source for anything like that. Raspil: Thank you. ..................... section from my webpage "noah.php": Charles Raspil, in an article "Spatters and Planetary Iconography" (The Velikovskian 1994), details the recording of "spatters" from the middle of the second millennium BC through the 18th century AD. The spatters look like raindrops and rosettes, placed in artworks almost randomly surrounding depictions of gods or humans or any scenery. He includes some artifacts dating to the Neolithic Bronze Age and undated petroglyphs also. Raspil identifies these as astrological iconography, rather than to think of these spatters as physical. But if the spatters are understood as minute dust particles falling to Earth, where these spatters carried the electric charge of the Absu and fell, not like rocks, but floated down, born on the atmosphere, then the spatters could be understood as disintegrating electrically on nearing the surface of the Earth. This would suggest that dust from the Absu rained down for nearly 4000 years. If, as Raspil claims, the depiction of random spatters only started in the second millennium BC, then perhaps it was the change in the Earth's electrical field after 1492 BC which made a difference. However, there is also little of any art work from before the second millennium BC to inspect. Raspil has made a career of finding strange anomalous forms intersperced with pictorial details in art works dating from antiquity to the 18th century AD. The spatters seem like fillers of graphical space, but look as if these were objects regularly seen in the sky, or more likely near ground level. He writes: [note 28] "In their portrayal of the spatter, artists distribute it randomly within the confines of any particular artwork. It is small, taking up little space within the borders of any particular opus, and is multiple, appearing in pluralities. Its random distribution and appearance, along with its nonuniform configuration, suggest that it is a natural phenomenon and not an artistic symbol." "The basic spatter configuration consists of one large ringlet surrounded by many smaller ringlets (eight, usually). Variations exist: small square- or diamond-shaped ringlets may surround the central ringlet. On occasion, only a few nascent dots, not ringlets, will arrange themselves in significant spatterns (patterns of spatters)." [Image: Spatters] Raspil illustrates a Rhodian plate (above) which highlights action from the Trojan War, and comments: "Both the basic and more sophisticated spatters appear: the former to the immediate right of the first soldier's nose and between his legs, as well as above and on the second soldier's shield; the latter on the extreme right and left of each opponent, and in the centre of the diagram, between their two shields." "The sophisticated spatters appear to be "petalled." Two of these spatters are cut off by the borders of the plate. If these spatters were symbolic, not natural, why would the artist cut them off and treat them as if they were mere background, like clouds in a photograph?" This suggest dust particles falling to Earth, and igniting briefly in the blaze of plasma dispersal, like firecrackers, but perhaps without the sound.