Talk:Penny Polendina/@comment-219.92.254.136-20170801035505/@comment-4010415-20170801055340

In regards to Jonah, I think the theory that scientists have is that he was not literally swallowed by a whale or a fish, but rather was lost at sea, during a time in which the only constellation clearly visible in the sky was one that people, at the time, referred to as "the whale", thus spawning an ancient saying of "Lost in the belly of the whale" that was used to refer to when people were lost at sea during that time. Why would people of ancient times have a saying for that kind of event? Simple, because back then, night time navigation relied on locating the north star. If you can't easily locate the north star, you get lost.