Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an
emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures "Aveni
skillfully guides us around the awesome night sky through the
imagination of different peoples around the world, past and
present. A wonderful treasury of cultural astronomy."-Jacqueline
Mitton, author of Zoo in the Sky We can see love, betrayal, and
friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert
on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an
unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales
beloved for generations. The constellations included are not only
your typical Greek and Roman myths, but star patterns conceived by
a host of cultures, non-Western and indigenous, ancient and
contemporary. The sky has long served as a template for telling
stories about the meaning of life. People have looked for
likenesses between the domains of heaven and earth to help marry
the unfamiliar above to the quotidian below. Perfect reading for
all sky watchers and storytellers, this book is an essential
complement to Western mythologies, showing how the confluence of
the natural world and culture of heavenly observers can produce a
variety of tales about the shapes in the sky.
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