Bastian
The Living Force
Hello.
Another thread mentioning the Orion constellation bring to my mind these few questions.
While watching at the (night) sky, you see different stars, that were traditionnaly grouped in constellations.
I assume that different civilisations - let's say Chinese, Indian, Persian, Maya or Inca, etc. - have/had different constellation mapping.
For instance :
_Australian Aboriginal astronomy - Wikipedia
_Chinese constellations - Wikipedia
_Former constellations - Wikipedia (old occidental ones)
etc.
Of course, this is at least a bit arbitrary, because our mental images and pictures of the whole sky is a 2D representation of a 3D objet (cosmos !).
So the stars in a same constellation can be highly distant one from the other (and closer to another one in another constellation).
But, beyond this (apparently) arbitrary grouping, is there any meaning/wisdom in the constellations ? (Not only mythologic.)
Are they (or at least some of them) a remainder of knowledge brought down here by "distant" beings (either in space terms, or level of consciousness/density) ?
PS: maybe I should have put this thread in the History section, but I wasn't sure.
Another thread mentioning the Orion constellation bring to my mind these few questions.
While watching at the (night) sky, you see different stars, that were traditionnaly grouped in constellations.
I assume that different civilisations - let's say Chinese, Indian, Persian, Maya or Inca, etc. - have/had different constellation mapping.
For instance :
_Australian Aboriginal astronomy - Wikipedia
_Chinese constellations - Wikipedia
_Former constellations - Wikipedia (old occidental ones)
etc.
Of course, this is at least a bit arbitrary, because our mental images and pictures of the whole sky is a 2D representation of a 3D objet (cosmos !).
So the stars in a same constellation can be highly distant one from the other (and closer to another one in another constellation).
But, beyond this (apparently) arbitrary grouping, is there any meaning/wisdom in the constellations ? (Not only mythologic.)
Are they (or at least some of them) a remainder of knowledge brought down here by "distant" beings (either in space terms, or level of consciousness/density) ?
PS: maybe I should have put this thread in the History section, but I wasn't sure.