Thank you very much for this collection jupiterbeings. The sketches are very interesting.
The "Etoiles courants" look a little like contrails. I don't know the physics but it makes me wonder if contrails could be caused by "comens etc."?
During the last few months I saw a lot of very orange / reddish sunsets and sunrises. They were similar to the orange/red skies in the comet sketches...
When I saw these pictures I was reminded of an water colour of Albrecht Dürer - Traumgesicht (dream vision). When I searched for I found that he also made a couple of pictures with unusual things falling from the sky (e.g. comets, stones) or symbols I connect with these.
Traumgesicht (dream vision) - This picture is depicting a dream with a huge lot of water falling down (sheets of rain?).
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traumgesicht_%28D%C3%BCrer%29.jpg
Text below (German):
"Im 1525 Jor nach dem pfinxstag zwischen dem Mitwoch und pfintzdag in der nacht im schlaff hab ich dis gesicht gesehen wy fill großer wassern vom himmell fillen Und das erst traff das erthrich ungefehr 4 meill fan mir mit einer solchen grausamkeitt mit einem ubergroßem raüschn und zersprützn und ertrenckett das gantz lant In solchem erschrack ich so gar schwerlich das ich doran erwachett e dan dy andern wasser filn Und dy wasser dy do filn dy warn fast gros [=sehr groß, H.B.] und der fill ettliche weit etliche neher und sy kamen so hoch herab das sy im gedancken gleich langsam filn [= scheinbar gleichmäißg langsam fielen]. aber do das erst wasser das das ertrich traff schie herbey kam do fill es mit einer solchen geschwindigkeit wy{n}t [=mit Wind] und braüsen das und ich also erschrack do ich erwacht das mir all mein leichnam [=Körper] zittrete und lang nit recht zu mir selbs kam Aber do ich am morgen auff stund molet ich hy oben wy ichs gesehen het. Got wende alle ding zu{m} besten.
Albrecht Dürer"
Text below (English Translation):
`In 1525, during the night between Wednesday and Thursday after Whitsuntide, I had this vision in my sleep, and saw how many great waters fell from heaven. The first struck the ground about four miles away from me with such a terrible force, enormous noise and splashing that it drowned the entire countryside. I was so greatly shocked at this that I awoke before the cloudburst. And the ensuing downpour was huge. Some of the waters fell some distance away and some close by. And they came from such a height that they seemed to fall at an equally slow pace. But the very first water that hit the ground so suddenly had fallen at such velocity, and was accompanied by wind and roaring so frightening, that when I awoke my whole body trembled and I could not recover for a long time. When I arose in the morning, I painted the above as I had seen it. May the Lord turn all things to the best.
Albrecht Dürer'
Melancholia I - There is a comet in the upper left corner.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BCrer_Melancholia_I.jpg
Witch Riding Backwards On A Goat - Something like stonesfalling from above in the upper left corner.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Hexe_%28Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer%29.jpg
Heller Altarpiece - Something like stones falling out of a "cloud".
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_039.jpg
Loth´s Flucht (Loth´s Flight) - City burning in the background and something falling down.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_054.jpg
The Revelation of St John: 5. Opening the Fifth and Sixth Seals - Fire rains from above.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Durer,_apocalisse,_05_quinta_e_setsa_piaga.jpg
The Revelation of St John: 3. St John and the Twenty-four Elders in Heaven - Someting very pointed coming out of clouds.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Durer,_apocalisse,_03_ventiquattro_vecchi.jpg
The Last Judgment - A sword pointing to Jesus' head, two angels with "trumpets", a man-eating dragon in the right hand lower corner...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BCrer_-_Das_j%C3%BCngste_Gericht.jpg
The Revelation of St John: 8. The Battle of the Angels - Dragons or lions in the sky breathing something like fire.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BCrer_-_Der_Engelkampf.jpg
Albrecht Dürer 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. He lived during the dark ages when there was black death in Europe. For me he seem to depict what he has seen sometime.
