Star stories : constellations and people /
"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...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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Table of 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.