Druid Cosmology Revisited - Crumby Ovate and Rayetta Pistrum

As has already been admitted on several previous occasions in this venue, and everywhere else the Druidry persist and make public commentary, Cosmology is not the earmark of our Liturgy. We are opinionated but ignorant on the great issue of universe formation. For the WG has not been much forthcoming on this subtopic and we can only assume She knows what She's doing and does other stuff, other places, outside those areas the Druidry in these parts can perceive with binoculars or a small telescope. But we are, nevertheless, curious in a desultory way about the subtopic Cosmology way out yonder where we don't know what's happenin', fer sure.

So a headline on Astromart.com/news

Huge Superbubble of Gas Blowing Out of Milky Way

is liable to perk some of us up. Companioning with this headline and the susbequent spell, is an artist's rendition of the event, which, together with comments provided by a couple of our comrade Astromarters, which we will not respell in this venue, puts the event in some reasonable perspective.

We have copied the artist's rendition off to the east of this text and very much hope we have not done anything that will get us in trouble with the internet police*. You may see for yourselves, expeditiously, that this is a very interesting artist's rendition of the event.

In addition to the artist' rendition of the superbubble, we found another picture on the internet that we have copied also just to the east of this current text. 'Tis an actual picture of a starfish, not an artist's rendition of a starfish. We would now request that you take sufficient time to examine these twain images.
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la-nee, la-nee, lanee, lanee, lanee
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All righty then. Once upon a time there was a fairly famous zoologist who spelled himself Alfred Sherwood Romer to distinguish himself from other zoologists of lesser account. The mighty Romer, among others, hypothesized that chordates, that is animals with backbones, had to have evolved from some ancestral form of one sort or another and that this logical ancestor was most likely to have been a starfish (Echinodermata). Starfish, you see, when they are tiny babies, actually swim about much like mammalian sperm, and so, for a short time, are not limited by creepy crawly locomotion. And the hypothesis goes on that a little one, a presumptive starfish, did something unusual and instead of going the route of the starfish, remained a fish, or fishlike, or approximately fishlike, or at the least an artist's rendition of fishlike. This sort or verve, took lotsa nerve, and so the backbone was established to contain all that nerve. Much later, the yellow streak down yer back evolved to indicate the diminishment of nerve as the chordates progressed or regressed, as the case might be.

But the subtopic of today's lesson is

The Similarity of the Starfish and the Milky Way and What Implifications, if any, that Similarity Portends for Druid Cosmology.

Note: The Milky Way and the Starfish are similarly shaped, that is flat. Also, both have numerous arms waving about. Note also: The above cited comments from our comrade Astromarters are more indicative of the arms of the Milky way than the artist's rendition.

Now, one of the great evolutionary innovatations of Echinodermata was the acquisition of an anus, an anus altogether separate in usual form and function from a mouth. Could it be that this gas superbubble is indicative of a closer than previously assumed relationship between galaxies and the Echiondermata, and that these galaxies, the Milky Way being but one example, have also evolved, an anus?

A great multitude of the ignorant and vulgar opine that we, that is humans and perhaps some of the proto humans, were made in God's image. Now, struck with all this new evidence, even we, a subset of the Cowbarn Druidry, are beginning to wonder.
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* Art credit: Bill Saxton, NRA)/AUI/NSF