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Beyond the Blue Horizon (myths and legends of the Sun, Moon, stars and planets)
by E.C. Krupp
Harper Collins Publishers 1991 ISBN 0-06-015653-8
The Sky - Mystery, Magic and Myth
by Jean-Pierre Verdet
Harry N. Abrams, Publishers ISBN 0-8109-2873-6
The Orion Book of the Sky
by Jean-Claude Pecker
Orion Press, New York 1960
Conversation with the Planets (how science and myth invented the cosmos)
by Anthony Aveni
Times Books 1992 ISBN 0-8129-1975-0
Tales of the Constellations (the myths and legends of the night sky)
by Marianne McDonald
Michael Friedman Publishing 1996 ISBN 0-8317-7277-8
120 pages
Celestial Charts (antique maps of the heavens)
by Carole Stott
Smithmark Publishing 1995 ISBN 0-8317-1322-4
128 pages, color depictions (unfortunately spread across 2 pages)
Star Walk
edited by Seymour Simon
Morrow Junior Books 1995 ISBN 0-688-11887-9
30 pages, poems and quotes, photographs
The New Patterns in the Sky (myths and legends of the stars)
by Julius D.W. Staal
McDonald and Woodward Publishing 1988 ISBN 0-939923-04-1 (pbk)
Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning
by R.H. Allen
Dover 1963
The Stars are Silver Reindeer
by Natalia Belting
Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966
poems and drawings
Sun Stories
(tales from around the world to illuminate the days and nights of our lives)
by Carolyn Edwards
Harper Collins 1995 ISBN 0-06-250276-X
204 pages
Eclipse of the Sun (an investigation into Sun and Moon myths)
by Janet McCrickard
Gothic Image Publications 1990 ISBN 0-906362-13-X
The Orion Book of the Sun
by Etienne Lalau
Orion Press, New York 1960
Moonscapes (a celebration of lunar astronomy, magic, legends and lore)
by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Prentice Hall Press 1991 ISBN 0-13-541681-7
Earth & Sky (Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore)
edited by Ray A. Williamson and Claire R. Farrer
University of New Mexico Press 1992 ISBN 0-8263-1553-4 (ppk 1994)
- 17 articles relating astronomy to interpretation and ritual useage in North America
Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father (Space, Time and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting)
by Trudy Griffin-Pierce
University of New Mexico Press 1992 ISBN 0-8263-1389-2
Living the Sky (the cosmos of the American Indian)
by Ray A. Williamson
University of Oklahoma Press 1984 ISBN 0-8061-2034-7
Living Life's Circle (Mescalero Apache cosmovision)
by Claire R. Farrer
University of New Mexico Press 1991 ISBN 0-8263-1311-6
Stars of the First People (Native American Star Myths and Constellations)
by Dorcas S. Miller
Pruett Publishing Company, Boulder CO 1997 ISBN 0-87108-858-4
When stars came down to earth : cosmology of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of N.A.
by Von Del Chamberlain.
Ballena Press (College Park, Md.)
Center for Archaeoastronomy, University of Maryland, 1982
The Phoenix of the Western World (Quetzalcoatl and the sky religion)
by Burr Cartwright Brundage
University of Oklahoma Press 1982 ISBN 0-8061-1773-7
Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes
by Brian S. Bauer and David S.P. Dearborn
University of Texas Press 1995 ISBN 0-292-77578-4 (pbk)
At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky (an Andean cosmology)
by Gary Urton
University of Texas Press 1981 ISBN 0-292-70404-6
Star Trek to Hawa-i'i
by Clyde Hostetter
Diamond Press, San Luis Obispo, CA 1991
Clyde tells a fascinating story as he traces the astronomical significance of
markings incised on an ancient middle eastern chalice purchased in Syria through
the Batak culture in Sumatra and eventually to the culture of the early Hawaiians.
Prehistoric Astronomy of the Southwest
by J. McKim Malville and Claudia Putnam
Johnson Books (Boulder, Colorado) 1989 ISBN 1-55566-041-X
How the Shaman Stole the Moon (In search of ancient prophet-scientists ....)
by William H. Calvin
Bantam 1991 ISBN 0-553-07740-6
Archaeoastronomy (skywatching in the Native American Southwest)
by Ron McCoy
Museum of Northern Arizona 1992
Plateau - magazine of the Museum of Northern Arizona (vol 63 no 2 - special issue)
ISSN 0032-1346
The Promise of Kohoutek
Arizona Highways Magazine Dec 1974, pg 44
(includes reproduction of oil painting by Manuel Lepe of comet at Christmas)
Sun and Solar Energy Special Issue
Arizona Highways Magazine Aug 1975
(includes article on Sun symbols through the ages)
Probing the Mystery of the Medicine Wheels
by John A. Eddy
National Geographic Jan. 1977 vol 151 no 1 pg 140
About the Center for Archaeoastronomy
Astronomy and Arthropods
Ron Lyons CASS, UCSD 0424, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla CA 92093-0424