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The ancient witchcraft and optical illusion

Is this picture an instruction how to make the optical illusion with spiral? (Picture 1) Kimmo Huosionmaa In the picture above the text is a figure of the ancient astronaut, or maybe this is not an astronaut at all. It can be picture or instruction how to create the optical illusion, by using rotating plate, where is drawn the spiral form. Another is so-called “hypnotic spiral” and the second one would be “Van Gogh effect". If the plate would rotate before the observer sees the certain type of picture, that picture seems like moving. This optical trick is very common in the circus and other art happenings. And it is the very influential experience. That kind of tricks was more influential in the prehistoric time, and the only thing, what this person needs is the high-speed plate, where is drawn the spiral shape and the painting, what is drawn by the certain way, and that might cause the effect, that the animals or other things were moving. So in this text, I will gi...

The secrets of Moses and Pharaoh were a big thing at that time.

(Picture 1) Kimmo Huosionmaa In the movie “The raider of the lost ark” was a scene, where hero put the stick in the hole and finds a secret model, what shows the place of the Ark of the Covenant. But when we would think, what those “magical sticks” actually do, we would find very inventive technical solutions, what might look very impressive for ordinary people of that time. The stick might have the normal lens, what has long focal length. That would cause a very impressive reaction when it focuses the focal point in certain place. But when we will start to use our imagination for those things, we must realize that those people had deadly traps to protect their secrets. In this case, the holy men or the guardians of secrets could use those lenses to burn the seal of the graves or storage of secret documents. This is only the imagination, but those secret files might be protected in the very deep. And they might consist the contracts of the leaders, what would not want to tel...