A01=Barbara Carter
A01=Eadhmonn Ua Cuinn
A01=Helen Benigni
Author_Barbara Carter
Author_Eadhmonn Ua Cuinn
Author_Helen Benigni
Category=G
Category=NHB
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Product details
- ISBN 9780761825722
- Weight: 209g
- Dimensions: 138 x 195mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2003
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Myth of the Year reveals the astronomy underlying Celtic and Greek mythology using the calendar of the Druids discovered in Coligny, France and the Sacred Calendar of Eleusis of ancient Greece. The myths of the ancients follow the seasons through the constellations illuminating the path of knowledge our ancestors lived throughout their year. To fully explain the meaning of these seasonal myths, the origin of the goddesses and the gods are traced to their Neolithic roots using Marija Gimbutas' archetypes of the Neolithic Pantheon. Indo-European adaptations made to some of the major deities are also discussed providing a profile of the evolution of the ancient goddesses and gods from Neolithic times to their present representations in the night sky. Besides linking astronomy to mythology, The Myth of the Year presents an effective and carefully researched path of ancient knowledge viable as a source of patterns of the sky, the earth, the moon, and the sun, meticulously plotted through eons of ancient knowledge.
Helen Benigni is Associate Professor of English at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia.
