Bibliography

Astronomy

IAU Constellations
Ian Ridpath's Star Tales
Astronomy across Cultures
Petri Apiani Cosmographia
Flags of the Night Sky
Flags of the Night Sky
Star Names and their Meanings
Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning
The Power of Stars
The Power of Stars
Exploring Ancient Skies
Under the Night Sky: Constellations
seasky.org - Explore the Universe
Constellation Guide
Sternbilder des Mittelalters und der Renaissance
Bibelwissenschaften - Sternbilder
Sterne und Sternbilder im Glauben des Altertums
astro.wisc.edu
in-the-sky.org Constellations
Space.com - Famous Star Patterns Explained
Gallery of Constellation Pictures
Windows to the Universe
Wikipedia IAU designated constellations
japanastronomy
Chinese and Korean Star Charts
Japanese Star Charts
Sumer Calendars
History of Science: the Constellations
Berkeley - The Astronomy of Many Cultures
Ancient Cultures and How They Shaped Astronomy
Stars
Samizdat: History of Astronomy
Uncharted Constellations
Astronomy Across Cultures
Eclipse History
Asterisms and Historic Constellations
The Alphabet in the Sky
Early Navigation
University of Victoria: Practical Astronomy
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

Supernovae

Short history of Supernovae
Yycho's Supernova

Mythology

General

Ian Ridpath's Star Tales
Myth Encyclopedia
Stellar Journeys
Chandra Observatory Constellation Index
Wikipedia Star lore
Modern Constellations
Gary David Thompson: History of the Constellations
S A Mackey: Mythological Astronomy
William Tyler Olcott: Star lore of all ages
Written In the Stars
Edward Luther Stevenson:Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol I
Charting the Universe: achievements and setbacks

Archaeoastronomy

Wikipedia Archaeoastronomy
A Cosmic Hunt in the Berber sky
The Cosmic Hunt in North Eurasian Rock Art
Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America

Abrahamic Religions

Star Lore in Gospels
Astronomy of the Bible
Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World

Mesopotamia

Rogers: The Mesopotamian Tradition
Cuneiform planisphere
Mesopotamian boundary stones
Thompson: Babylonian star calendars
Myths and legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Gavin White: Babylonian Star-Lore

Greek

Rogers: The Mediterranean Tradition
Astrobites
Astronomy Rewind
Norm McCarter
Globe at Night
Comfy Chair
Greek Mythology Star Myths
Canaanite and Phoenician Astronomy
Aratus Phaenomena

Egypt

Dendera Zodiac
S.A. Mackey and the Dendera zodiacs
The Constellations of Ancient Egypt
Identifying the Ancient Egyptian Constellations
Thopmson on Egyptian Constellations
Thopmson on Egyptian Constellations

Europe

Yuri Berezkin: European Sky in the past
Re-interpretation of Historical References to the Supernova of 1054 AD

Celts

King-Arthurs-Wain-Constellations

Viking

Norse Constellations
Viking Starmap
Germanic Astronomy
Wikipedia:Norse Cosmology
digitaliseducation: Norse Astronomy
Viking Astronomy
Throwback Thorsday:Norse Astronomy
Saxon and Viking Star Names

Africa

South African Star Myths
Comparison of Dark Constellations of the Milky Way
Comparison of Dark Constellations of the Milky Way
African Ethnoastronomy
A Review of African Ethnoastronomy

Islam

E.S. Kennedy: A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables
History of Observatories in the Islamic World

Inuit

Inuit Star Lore
Planets in Inuit Astronomy
Inuit Wayfinding (Vega, Arcturus, and Muphrid)
lliarjugaarjuk (Vega, Arcturus, and Muphrid)
Aagjuuk
Auriga Aagjuuk
Venus

North America

Native American Star Legends
Book Review: When the Stars Came Down to Earth
Native American star maps
The Moose of the Anishinaabe people
Indian Stars
Ojibwa Map
Anishinaabek Constellations
anishinaabe-star-knowledge
Navajo Constellations
Orion in North America
Sacred hoop of stars
The Great Race
Starry Night
Ojibwe Constellation Guide
Dakota Constellation Guide
Ojibwe Dakota Ininew Maps
Ojibwe Map Large
Dakota Map Large
Ininew Map Large
St. Cloud Starmap Project
St. Cloud Starmap Project
Annette Lee Star Maps
cree and ojibway sky
Wilfred Buck Ininewuk Stories of the Stars
epj-conferences
Lakota Star Knowledge DVD
Star Beings and Stones
Lakota Constellations Cree Spider Legend Indian Sky
The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos
Lakota Startabs
Pawnee Buckskin Star Map
Pawnee Buckskin Star Map
Cheyenne Shield vs. Nebra Sky Disk
Pawnee Star People
Cheyenne Shield
Wikipedia Inuit Astronomy
Inuit Star Legends
how_fisher_went_to_the_skyland
bears_lodge_dakota
Keepers of the Earth (Fisher-Skyland)
Hočąk Stories about stars

Central America

Aztec Constellations
Aztec Ursa Major
Aztec Ursa Major
Aztec Pleiades
Aztec Ursa Major
Possible Maya Constellations
Maya Paris Code
Star Gods of the Maya

South America

Comparison of Dark Constellations of the Milky Way
Comparison of Dark Constellations of the Milky Way
Ethnoastronomy in South America

China

The oldest extant star chart
Chinese Starlore
China Saga
IDP Astrology and Myth
The International Dunhuang Project
Starlab - The Four Beasts
Chinese Myths of the Stars
Ancient Chinese constellations
Chinese Cosmology

Japan

Steve Renshaw: Astronomy in Japan

India

Aryabhata earths circumference
Bhaskaracharya
Story of Astronomy in India
The Pole Star and the Seven Rishis (A Hindu Legend)
Wikipedia: Indian astronomy
Wikipedia: Hindu cosmology
Wikipedia: lunar mansions in Hindu astrology
Wikipedia: lunar mansion Ashlesha in Hindu astrology
Astronomical Myths in India

Australia

Wkipedia Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Australia's first astronomers
Comparison of Dark Constellations of the Milky Way
Comparison of Dark Constellations of the Milky Way
Astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi Peoples
The Night Sky of the Boorong
Robert Stevens Fuller: The Astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi Peoples and Their Neighbours
R.H. Mathews: Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales and Victoria
Mythology-Night-skies
Aboriginal Astronomical Traditions from Ooldea,South Australia
Tribal Migrations and Myths Centring on Ooldea, South Australia

Pacific

Wikipedia:Polynesian Navigation
Hawaiian Star Names
Polynesian Navigation
The Polynesian Mariner
Steering by the stars
Maori Star Compass
Star Compasses
Interpretation of the Star Compasses
Maori Star Names

Maori New Year
Amazon: The Great Canoes in the Sky
Futuna Star Names
Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic
Hawaiian Star Lines

Artwork

the-farnese-atlas
Kristen Lippincott>Constellations on Farnesse Atlas
milky-way-painting
magellanic-cloud-van-gogh
Al-Sufi Hevelius
Bayer
Bayer Uranometria
Uranographia
Zodiac signs Jaipur
Reissig 1829
Davis 1868
Koenig 1826
Aspin Urania's Mirror 1825
Bode Uranographia 1801
Bode Uranographia 1801 cont.
Joannes Hevelius Uranographia Pictures
Bode Vorstellung der Gestirne 1782
Flamsted Atlas Coelestis 1753
Flamsted Atlas Coelestis 1753 cont.
Bevis 1750
Hevelius Uranographia 1690
Beyer Uranometria 1603
staff.science: Al-Sufi, selected Constellations
Robert van Gent: Al-Sufi, selected Constellations
Celestial Cartography various artwork
Regiomontanus
Faltkalender
Faltkalender
Othea's Epistle
Navajo Astronomy
Vopel Globes
Globes

Pleiades

The Pleiades in mythology
Myths and legends about the Pleiades
Wikipedia: Pleiades in folklore and literature
Ancient Perception p 100

Orion

Orion Myths
wikivisually Orion

Taurus

search for Bull of Heaven

Eclipse

Statistical Survey Anc. China
Eclipse Myths
Eclipse Myths
Eclipse Myths
Eclipse Myths
Eclipse Myths

Illustrations

Bushman Rock Art
Boorong: Stars over Tyrell

Modern

Stars in fiction
New Constellations
New Constellations
New Constellations
New Constellations
New Constellations
New Constellations described
Antonio Panaino: Ursa Minor and the North_Pole

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