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Sun halo wows Ethiopia amid poll



A halo around the sun startled people in Ethiopia during Sunday's local elections, with many seeing it as a miracle or a sign from God.
The ring of light caused by sunlight refracted by ice crystals hung in the sky for almost an hour before it finally faded and disappeared.
Some Ethiopians say it last appeared in 1991 before a military regime fell.
But the BBC's Elizabeth Blunt in Addis Ababa says there is little chance it could augur change this time.
She says the overwhelming majority of candidates are from the government party.
Churchgoers who had flocked to see the visiting Patriarch of Alexandria, Pope Shenouda, acclaimed the phenomenon as a miracle, or at least a sign of a blessing from God.

 

 

Thank you, God, for revealing a sign

 

Abuna Paulos, Patriarch of Ethiopia

Pope Shenouda himself believed it was a signal from above.
"We accept any sign from God to encourage us in our way," he said, "and confirm that we are going right in our way."
Abuna Paulos, the Patriarch of Ethiopia, added his voice to those who believe in signs from God.
"If God reveals himself from the sky," he told a press conference, "we believers do not get surprised. We only rejoice and double our efforts to thank God. Thank you, God, for revealing a sign."
Dictatorship
But others looked for more secular implications.
Older people in Addis Ababa remember seeing the ring around the sun once before - in the last days of the Derg, the despised military dictatorship, just before its leader Mengistu Haile Mariam fled to Zimbabwe.
But there is little prospect of the government falling in these elections.
The opposition winners of the controversial elections in 2005 in urban areas never took their seats and did not stand again.
The most successful of the other opposition parties pulled out, complaining of intimidation and our correspondent says the results are almost certain to consolidate the ruling party's hold on power.
Results have not been published yet but an election official said turnout had been massive.

[cryptowonderdruginvogue]

i'm sure there's a scientific/rational explanation for the halo around the sun

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by cryptowonderdruginvogue

i'm sure there's a scientific/rational explanation for the halo around the sun

did you not read the article? the halo was caused by ice crystals, a few years ago the same thing happened around the moon here in Los Angeles, left a green halo. remember, just because science has an explanation, doesn't mean that they can prove out God, because divinity is not provable to begin with. and further, you must admit that is pretty bizarre coincidence, that the sunday morning of local elections, when the pope of Egypt is in town, that this ice formation around the morning sun takes place, when it hasn't happened in 15 years...

[Rob Instigator]

I saw a sun halo, a full rainbow halo at University of Houston while I was awaiting for my next class. I had read about thembefore and had always wanted to see one and I stared at it and kept trying to get various people to look at it and no one was very impressed, fucking idiots.

I have seen around 4-6 halos.

[floatingslowly]

sun dogs / parahelia are not all that uncommon.

I wonder if I could "wow" them with my lighter too.

OGANZA!!!

[Savage Clone]

I see this stuff all the damn time.
Maybe I should turn into a religious fanatic.

[floatingslowly]

no. really. I push this little button and FLAME appears.





you people must be too jaded to appreciate the majick.

[Savage Clone]

Do you mean to say you have MASTERED FIRE?

[mangajunky]

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

Do you mean to say you have MASTERED FIRE?

He may have mastered fire...but only CROM knows the riddle of steel!

[Rob Instigator]

CROM!