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Retelling ancient star myths and uncovering the knowledge within them.
Every culture that has ever existed looked up at the same sky.
The same Orion. The same Pleiades. The same river of stars cutting across the darkness.
And almost every one of them, whether separated by oceans, language, or centuries, looked at them, and told a story about what they saw. Stories about hunters and lovers and gods and monsters. Stories that survived wars, migrations, and the collapse of entire civilizations. Stories that were passed down, generation after generation, for thousands of years.
Star Stories brings those stories back to life.
Each episode takes a constellation, a star, or a region of the night sky, and retells the ancient myths and legends that human cultures built around it.
The storytelling is immersive and narrative, retold in a modern format. At the end, we decode what information these cultures were embedding into the story.
From the deserts of Ancient Egypt to the frozen lands of the Nordic people, we tell the stories from cultures around the world, to reconnect you to the night sky.
Hosted by Ian Lauer. A Stargazer Studios production.
Every culture that has ever existed looked up at the same sky.
The same Orion. The same Pleiades. The same river of stars cutting across the darkness.
And almost every one of them, whether separated by oceans, language, or centuries, looked at them, and told a story about what they saw. Stories about hunters and lovers and gods and monsters. Stories that survived wars, migrations, and the collapse of entire civilizations. Stories that were passed down, generation after generation, for thousands of years.
Star Stories brings those stories back to life.
Each episode takes a constellation, a star, or a region of the night sky, and retells the ancient myths and legends that human cultures built around it.
The storytelling is immersive and narrative, retold in a modern format. At the end, we decode what information these cultures were embedding into the story.
From the deserts of Ancient Egypt to the frozen lands of the Nordic people, we tell the stories from cultures around the world, to reconnect you to the night sky.
Hosted by Ian Lauer. A Stargazer Studios production.
13 Episodes
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Tonight we're looking at the Big Dipper.It's a story about the Cosmic Hunt, and it comes from the Haudenosaunee, who resided in what's now New York and southern Ontario.This story contains a tiny, very specific detail that, when you first hear it, you wouldn’t even notice. But this tiny detail shows up in stories told on the other side of the world, by people who could not possibly have met.A researcher spent decades cataloguing tens of thousands of these stories specifically to find things like it. And when he wrote up what he found, he said there could only be one explanation or it.So when you listen to this story, keep a look out for that small detail.
Tonight we're looking at the Pleiades.The one I want to tell you tonight is from the Kokatha people, who live in the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia.The tale I’m going to tell is just going to be my way of telling it in a modern format. But just remember that those communities are still there and the story is still theirs. And to anyone who speaks these languages, my apologies in advance for how I handle the names.Now hidden inside it is something that a team of astronomers found that absolutely blew my mind when I learned about it. It is one of the single most impressive observations I have ever come across in any culture, anywhere.So stay with me through the story. Because the decode on this one is worth it.
Tonight we're looking at a constellation called Andromeda.When most people in the astro world hear that word, they immediately think of the Andromeda galaxy, not the constellation.But this story’s focus is on the tale behind Andromeda, which comes to us from Greek mythology.This story, which is just a small piece in a greater story, contains six constellations, all relatively close to each other in the night sky.When viewed together, tell a story from long ago.But this story goes back much further than most people think.So with that, let's find out how she ended up with the name, "The Chained Beauty".
Tonight's story comes to us from the Mexica, the people most of us call the Aztecs, a myth written down in the fifteen hundreds, based on a much older tradition.Many say there's a face on the Moon. But to the Aztecs, they saw a rabbit. And don't let the fact that it's a rabbit fool you, because this story is filled with drama, fire, sacrifice, and punishment.So let's go back to the beginning. And when I say the beginning, I mean the beginning of this world. The one we’re in today.Because this world where you and I live in…isn’t the first.
Tonight's story comes from the Nordic people. A story written down on the small island of Iceland. Almost everything we know about Norse mythology comes to us through two books that were written down in medieval Iceland.And inside those books is a story about what happens when, for a brief moment in time, the Sun goes dark.A total solar eclipse.So let's go back to the time of the people we call Vikings. Places of deep cold and freezing water.Let's go back to learn what they thought was happening when the Sun goes missing.
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