An award-winning professor takes readers on a guided tour of the stunning celestial discoveries of past cultures. Interweaving the astronomy, mythology, and anthropology of ancient peoples, Aveni shows how to discover the harmony between their beliefs and their study of the sky through naked-eye observations. 30 illustrations.
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An award-winning professor takes readers on a guided tour of the stunning celestial discoveries of past cultures. Interweaving the astronomy, mythology, and anthropology of ancient peoples, Aveni shows how to discover the harmony between their beliefs and their study of the sky through naked-eye observations. 30 illustrations.
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As a long term student of astrology and beneficiary of mythical thinking, I am immensely grateful for the respect which this award winning scholar reveals for human nature and our ability to find meaning and purpose in our surroundings. This is a book which reveals that both science and religion stem from the same roots in our ancient astronomical past. Those roots revolve around an existential yearning to know truth in life and to make the best of "figuring" that out within our temporal, cultural, and developmental context. Anthony Aveni is a man I would like to meet. He recognizes and teaches that nobody can ever have a monopoly on truth and he contributes to the pleasure of seeking it nevertheless! A must read for anyone who truly cares to understand where science and religion emerged from in the two to three thousand years that preceded the common era. And a must read for anyone who wants faith in our ability to restore some of the connection and magic in our lives that the human race has disowned since the advent of the scientific revolution and the accompanying rapid grow of urban civilization, a few hundred years ago....
