Sun, Moon, and Stars

This beautiful and wide-ranging book explores the eternal mysteries of the sun, moon, and stars. Alongside stories adapted from ancient mythology are pages of celestial lore -- facts and ideas about how people used to navigate by the stars and why they thought the earth was flat, about the Star of Bethlehem and the Signs of the Zodiac.Here are more than twenty myths and legends taken from cultures around the world, including: -- The Greek hero Phaeton who drove his chariot through the sky-- The Chinese heavenly archer who saved his people from monsters-- The Pawnee love story of Great Star and White Star Woman-- The Norse fable of the children in the moon-- the Ancient Egyptian belief in Mother SkyThe lovely retellings of these stories with their insights into the past make stirring reading, enhanced by the exquisite images, rich with silver and gold, that abound throughout this handsome volume.Mary Hoffman is the author of 'Sun, Moon, and Stars', published 2001 under ISBN 9781577171768 and ISBN 1577171764.