217 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Deep Symbolism of Groundhog Day
The Symbolic World
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Ground Hogs, Great Marmoths
Ground hogs and great marmoths hibernated in the winter. The idea of seeing its shadow is that it's clear and sunny on the day, right? You're in the middle of winter, six weeks into winter. Y got six more weeks of winter coming. So if it's bright and sunny, kind of a warm day, such that this animal, which is coming out of death, rights coming out of sleep, as coming out of the earth, comes up out of death,. It sees the light, but you could say it like, sees the light too soon, and so it turns around and goes back right back into back into death. Rit there's almost
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