Star Myths: The Stories of the Constellations

The constellations. Images in the night sky our ancestors drew among the stars. They were used for navigation, fortune telling and story-telling. Different cultures had their own constellations, but our modern ones come from the ancient Greeks. They believed the constellations were reminders of their great myths placed there by the gods. Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer, named 48 constellations in his seminal work, the Almagest. In modern times, the International Astronomical Union recognizes a total of 88 constellations. In this video, I want to tell the stories these constellations express

Sources:
Star Tales by Ian Ridpath

Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Music:
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[doctorfaustxvi]

I must admit that this has quickly became one of my favourite channels. Looking forward to more uploads!

[kirandeepchakraborty]

Myths I But they connect us with our distant past.... That's beautiful ❤️

[RabichoMH]

This channel is a treat. The video quality is excellent and the topics are interesting. I'd watch more of these constellations videos.

[leaiplussize]

this is a great video, you must do a part 2, there is so much more of the constellations to cover. I enjoyed it and learn so much

[bdluejay]

I didn't know the stories of the constellations, I would love to see more!!

[AllieThePrettyGator]

Constellation stories are the best. you can only see all 88 constellations in the equator

[jcristi]

Good job. More please. I’ve had to take my dog out in the middle of the night for over a year now and have found some constellations for the first time in my life.
Massive light pollution here, but when the sky is clear I can see enough to keep me interested. I can always find Orion these days and Sirius is all I see of Canis Major, along with one star of Canis Minor when it’s really dark.
My app helps fill in the blanks.
Thanks.

[gododoof]

Pour one out for the crab who bravely battled Hercules. He was a real one.

[coyote]

Please do a sequel. This was well done.

[janerkenbrack]

The story of Prometheus is so obviously a myth, as there are no eagles who like liver that much.

[markjosephbacho]

Missed you dude! And this one's a super interesting topic to me.

[victorfeitosa]

Where can I find those musics? I LOVE this kind of medieval/rpg songs, like this one in the background at 01:35.

[Freesavh]

Thanks to Stephen Fry for his Heroes book i know all these stories so very well. Wow you really out done yourself with this video. Thank you so much for it.

[WitchlingFairyelle]

My question is I’ve seen the sky while in a national park in Utah and there are soooo many of them I often wonder how they picked out patterns like that to create stories. They’re obvs much easier to see for us because we see less of them due to light pollution thus the brightest ones shine through for us. But they were able to see them all so how did they do that. It’s incredible and a testament to humans innate desire for creativity and stories

[grimreaper]

Did you ever make a part 2 explaining the Zodiacs?

[thogarrathikarthik]

First Comment:
Been eagerly waiting for your upload

[microrevolutions]

Thank you, engaging and interesting (Greek mythology is indeed wild..). I am in a place right now with little light pollution and the stars.. amazing.

[markusluoma]

Hercules is orion with club. Same stars different myth, the arrow of love is cygnus

[pinkgreenmelon]

these greeks had a lot of time on their hands

[aylaerickson]

Yes pls because I want to learn about my zodiac which is Libra