The Sun was beating down slantingly
" The sun was beating down slantingly, as if we were in a southern
latitude, instead of in the far Northland. It was swinging around,
its orbit ever visible and rising higher and higher each day,
frequently mistcovered, yet always peering through the lacework of
clouds like some fretful eye of fate, guarding the mysterious
Northland and jealously watching the pranks of man. Far to our right
the rays decking the prisms of icebergs were gorgeous. Their
reflections emitted flashes of garnet, of diamond, of sapphire. A
pyrotechnic panorama of countless colors and shapes, while below
could be seen the green-tinted sea, and above, the purple sky."
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List Members,
Olaf´s description from the end of Part Two is fraught with
significance. If the Sun was beating down slantingly, as if they were
in the southern hemisphere, then this suggests that they were passing
through the neck of the opening, inwards, and that it was the inner
sun that was then shining at an angle in the sense
that it was shining straight up and through the opening, from the middle.
A purple sky? The density of the atmosphere might be reduced at that
point, such that the frequency of light isn't reduced below below purple.
Don't think that the rays are separated and scatter (whereto?). The frequency of light, i.e., color, becomes reduced as light passes through the medium of the atmosphere.
Posted by Dean