Uta Tulu Research

So the story is coming along slowly. It's growing. I have over 49,000 words left to compose and doubt I'll complete it before the deadline but oh well, it seems many people try year after year before they finally make the deadline.

Over the past week, I've stolen precious moments while waiting for the two and three layers of paint dry to compile my research notes.

I've discovered my penchant for research while informative, is also a procrastination tactic.
I mean how in depth does a short story have to get before its finally written?

So today, the first of my two days off a week has to be dedicated to writting, rather than research.

But first a summary to get all my ducks lined up. (I just can't help myself!)

All this research hasn't been a total waste. For instance by studying the polar ice, climate and weather patterns I've been able to pinpoint exactly the route Uta Tulu's ice flow will take as it migrates from the polar regions of the Arctic Ocean through the Bering straight and towards the Canadian Archepelagos of the Aleutian Islands.

I've also learned that the majority of sunshine during the spring and autumn equinox falls mostly on the equatorial longitudes. This heats up the Earth and Ocean surfaces, whose heat is then spread world wide bringing rising and descending air masses, precipitation and life to all the continents, even those locked in by permafrost and glaciers.

The polar regions of Earth act as a heat sink, recycling the tropical energy delivered by way of air and ocean currents to the regions between it (the respective pole) and the equator. In turn, cool artcic air is cycled southwards, bringing cool relief to hotter climates.

Coincidentally(?) following a seperate branch of research, I was doing some light night time reading of Isis Unveiled by Helena Blavatsky. In it, I discovered contentions that Sumerian culture shares much linguistic and mythic ties to the Hindu religion, even that the culture itself may have been seeded or influenced by wandering Brahams, or holy men.

I chewed on that for a while.

The next morning, I grabbed my copy of the Rig Veda, A collection of sacred Hindu hymns. The appendix catalogues the poetic structures of ancient hymn, my thought was by learning more about Hindu poetry I might be better able to grasp Sumerian poetic themes.

While I took some notes and generally got what I was looking for, I was also surprised by the descriptions of two Gods. Indra and Agni. Both of whose names and natures I was already somewhat familiar with.

I went back to the plot of Uta Tulu, and started to rewrite.
I had originally intended to focus the story on the North West hemisphere, but after learning of the impact of the tropics on the climate of the Arctic, that changed a little. I was compelled to add a new character to the story in order to represent the south, fire, heat, and life. The complimentary opposite of Uta Tullu, who represents the North, (ice) water, cold, and hibernation (death in life)

This second character is based on Agni.
Agni is creative fire, born of Water, (who is) his twin brother, the god Indra. Ayurvedic wisdom describes Agni as the energetic force behind digestion, and controls the cycle of such. Agni can be described as fire in the belly.

Indra, however caught my main interest.
Indra is a warrior god of rain, rivers, thunder, fertility and victory. He's also a lover of the Soma ( both a spiritual essence and a terrestrial essence derived from some kind of evergreen plant). Soma is somehow related to the moon, and visions. A god of water would reasonably be expected to have a deep tie to the Moon.

A curiosity of Indra is that he was cursed by the offended Mage Guatama, who declared that for the love of Yoni (a woman's privates) Indra seduced Guatama's wife and therefore will wear the mark of that seduction on his body for all to see.

So Indra became covered in Yoni's head to foot. Another God, mabe Siva? felt compassion for Indra and to transform his shame, placed an eye in the center of each of his yoni's.

One of Indra's many titles is Lord of the Atmosphere. I think it is fitting that as such he would have skin covered in a type of fertile sensor. Each eyed Yoni can "conceive" (as in comprehend, see, and manifest) atmospheric information such as humidity, temperature, dew points, lifting or descending air masses. It is this feminized quality he earned (through a mis- deed) that gives rise to his ability to not only sense these atmospheric markers, but to also control and manifest weather itself.

Wow Man.

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