The appearance of certain constellations in the sky is sometimes mirrored by cloud images visible from the ground or visible in weather satellite photos. For instance, when Canis Major appears with Sirius in the Dog Days of August, I have noted more images of dogs in the clouds. We see a similar phenomenon above as Boötes with Corona Borealis replaces Orion, when his Winter quest for the soul of Andromeda at Algol or Lilith in Perseus, the Plieades and Aries becomes a summer comedy involving his own soul, as mirrored in M16's Star Queen Nebula. Boöte's rise and Orion's fall reminds us of the ancient Egyptian phase "Soul to heaven, body to earth." from The Papyrus of Ani. Similarly, the appearance of the constellation Leo is sometimes correlated with the appearance of charging lions in the clouds.

I note that the mythic imaging phenomenon in the clouds overhead seems to mirror my doings on and off, usually as a function of whether what I am doing at the time is impacting in science and engineering. When I did nothing much, it showed hardly any echoes in the cloud tops. But if I mailed out a new theorem impacting a science theme, the clouds would show news-report echoes of the event. Romance could also have some impact. I note that the reporter-cloud images could be stimulated by feeding sea gulls at the beach if that was the most newsworthy thing going on. I have seen the sky full of walrus images over a walrus breeding island, too, and twice I saw an image of a cocker spaniel with a dong in its mouth image over the same house. In Lawton, Oklahoma, on Sunday mornings one could see images of heavenly quires in the sky, the sort of thing man must have spoken of with reverence in ages past. At that time the heavenly reporter function was noting local Sunday meetings for its casual witnesses. When I was about to leave Lawton for Tampa Bay in 1990, the clouds formed a photo-realistic image of an Old Man of the Sea facing a skeletal bride in a wedding gown carrying a bouquet of flowers...
Another time I came up with a correction to a result impacting the performance of jet planes and sent my theorem to a prominent aeronautical engineer. Gods of War appeared in the clouds with shields and swords like something out of Greek history as I walked home after mailing it to the professor who wrote the textbook I was analyzing, towering in front of me like shades of the Peloponnesian Wars or the Colossus of Rhodes. Another time I devoted a few days to reading a mathematical treatise on aircraft performance and sky filled up with images of men falling from heaven cursing, the soles of the their feet turned upwards as they plunged to earth. I thought EE work fared rather better in the theatre of heavenly imaging. Perhaps an information theory plus fractal analysis plus a theory of image formation in nebulosities will help us to understand how an information-intensive event can be surrounded by a penumbra of imaging reporter-effects in the nebulosities above us, although it often seems that the best description might feature a Father Which Art in Heaven, or a Spirit in the Sky. An inspection of the constellations and their thematically cohesive, sub-illustrating nebulae and galaxies shows that the personal mind-mirror effect can seem to include the entire sky. I think perhaps the recitation of prayers from the Great Religions can also induce these effects, and I note that the spirit may appear above like a genie full of advice when a course of events requires migration, as in the exodus from Egypt. When I move, watch the clouds from above! I expect my moves may be associated with perils and stimulate the ghostly reporter if my mathematical and algorithmic pen has not altogether sputtered to a halt.
- James A.Green, revised March 7, 2006.

From Acts of the Apostles:
"7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight."

Romans 8:18: "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." - St. Paul

Mythology describing "the spirit of God moving across the face of the waters" and describing "the firmament of Heaven" has been with us in phonetic form, like the voice of the Lord bearing witness, since Genesis. Earlier generations of men including the ancient Egyptians and Greeks recognized heavenly symbolism in the constellations. Photographs of such things, however, did not begin until the invention of photography. Many impacting visions in the clouds were photographed, such as the mushroom cloud of Bikini Atoll Test B (Baker). But in weather satellite photography we seem to have moved to a higher plane from which symbolic images in the clouds are dramatic and more frequently visible than in former times, and at about the same time powerful telescopes have revealed mythic imagery in the nebulae that seems to sub-illustrate the symbolism in the constellations so vividly meaningful and important to Mohammed.