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Author Aveni, Anthony F., author.

Title Star stories : constellations and people / Anthony Aveni.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Patterns -- Orion's many faces -- One Pleiades fits all -- Zodiacs around the world -- Milky Way sagas -- Dark cloud constellations of the Milky Way -- Polar constellations -- Star patterns in the tropics -- Empire in the sky -- Star ceilings and mega-constellations -- Gendering the sky.
Summary "Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures. 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 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"--Jacket
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Subject Constellations.
Constellations.
Constellations -- Mythology.
Mythology.
Constellations -- Folklore.
Genre/Form Folklore.
Subject Astrology and mythology.
Astrology and mythology.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Archaeoastronomy.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Ethnoastronomy.
Ethnoastronomy.
Archaeoastronomy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Other Form: Print version: Aveni, Anthony F. Star stories. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300241280 (DLC) 2019936113 (OCoLC)1090012273
ISBN 9780300249095 (electronic book)
0300249098 (electronic book)
9780300241280
0300241283