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Many cultures around the world have ancient myths, legends and folktales
about ‘sky gods’, and in ancient
times, before the advent of the written word, astronomer-priests would
‘personify’ natural phenomena,
the better to tell stories about them. Celestial bodies, comets in particular,
were personified, and were often the central theme of these stories –
the ancient scientific explanation of their interactions being handed
down in oral traditions, the vestiges of which we call today mythology.
To these peoples science and religion were often inter-linked, and their
expression of these beliefs were much more poetic than the dry, unimaginative
jargon that dominates modern scientific language …
Owen Morien Morgan began gathering
the druidic traditions, astro-myths, and legends of Wales in the mid-1800s,
translating them into the ancient natural science they were composed to
impart, and comparing them with star lore, sky myths and the astro-mythology
of other ancient cultures worldwide …
read the astro-mythology classic
“Hamlet’s Mill” – an essay on myth and the frame of time
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