Re: GR translation: such a green corona about Earth’s body

[Robert Mahnke]

In astronomy, I am told, the word corona means

the rarefied <https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hs=2zOU&sca_esv=01358b9778c7170b&rls=en&q=rarefied&si=AMgyJEtTt81ZwKfSOowD-Pgs8NXg5DNKc8vmPWOyMBxj8ETgccwFZw19s6ktnDHl48Zy7hqDjob_RNPoN5t5EQ6v3RRHwaYwanTmbvZXUrcQftvxODlFpZM%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXpcGp8OORAxXFITQIHWvCNaIQyecJegQIMRAV> gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars. The sun's corona is normally visible only during a total solar eclipse, when it is seen as an irregularly <https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hs=2zOU&sca_esv=01358b9778c7170b&rls=en&q=irregularly&si=AMgyJEuOnAWW0Co4MNdoFOPUEMGA0Vp3_CuzPHnMTLoNDu5DKftXHqRwMnnuAUNvgw2dWa97-2M2-ApGozUxYlwIKNd8vV-YQ5U92g_NmK3gJDa8zsO28Sc%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXpcGp8OORAxXFITQIHWvCNaIQyecJegQIMRAW> shaped pearly <https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hs=2zOU&sca_esv=01358b9778c7170b&rls=en&q=pearly&si=AMgyJEsXYQ0NEcQTt8SssuuWcU5mnKWhyEA9N7_P84kJdrjKorefNQEsJaPkmzet-bMPOMH33goYdOHE-Zb63i8w9kEIcHmhGg%3D%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXpcGp8OORAxXFITQIHWvCNaIQyecJegQIMRAX>glow surrounding the darkened disk of the moon.


> On Dec 28, 2025, at 9:14 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> V720.17-23, P734.31-37   This is the World just before men. Too violently
> pitched alive in constant flow ever to be seen by men directly. They are
> meant only to look at it dead, in still strata, transputrefied to oil or
> coal. Alive, it was a threat: it was Titans, was an overpeaking of life so
> clangorous and mad, such a green corona about Earth’s body that some
> spoiler had to be brought in before it blew the Creation apart.
> 
> In what sense is the word "corona" used here?
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