Completed on: 30th January 2021
Anthony Aveni has skilfully woven together celestial stories and legends from a variety of cultures to provide the reader with a roadmap to the sky. He explains the impact that the constellations made on human behaviour throughout historical periods.
'The sky, too, has long been a canvas for telling stories about the meaning of life... Our contact with the sky humanised us. It encouraged us to use our imaginations to tell stories about who we are.'
Star Stories is inclusive of non-Western, indigenous, ancient and contemporary stories and acts as a lovely accompaniment to Western star stories and mythologies.
From the Greek and Roman myths to the Aboriginal People and their Dreamtime stories, Aveni presents a host of culturally diverse stories about the shapes in our night sky.
Whilst detailing mythological stories linked to the skies above us, this book also outlines constellation impact on farming, navigation, hours in our day, seasons and zodiacs.
A shallow dive into some of our most common constellations viewed from both the northern and southern hemisphere which provide a connotation and understanding of our world through stories passed down in generations from a multitude of cultures.
Written by a world expert in Astronomy, each reader will be transported into the starry night to feel and discover these generational stories about our constellations.
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