Isolated Thunder

I heard something that would have frightened me had I been just a bit unchanged: Thunder. There was no storm--only peaceful rains with warm winds--and loudly shouts this isolated thunder. I felt something. Not fear, but curiosity. What a peculiar sound this was. It sounded as though a large something was cracked open, or rather, because the sound rolled on, like the firmament was being peeled back. That's a biblical scene--if you believe in such things...