Additionally, I'd never considered a CME as an explanation for ancient texts.
Which of those pics would you describe in drawings/carvings as serpents? It could also explain the reverence of the Sun by early cultures around the world.
It's refreshing to experience good, hard science.
Bottom pic would make an awesome poster.
“Which of those pics would you describe in drawings/carvings as serpents?”
But keep in mind you are joining both science and spirituality together here with that.
The Norse did the same with the Milky Way across the sky.
Jörmungandr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr
https://wyrddesigns.wordpress.com/2022/01/27/could-jormungand-be-connected-to-the-milky-way/
Yes, but nothing like seeing them first person.
The ones I saw while on an amphibious deployment to northern Norway in February 1981 filled the night sky above the fjords. Also the “dragons” are not static; they wriggle and dance, appear, disappear, and reappear transformed.