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The great canoes in the sky: starlore and astronomy of the South Pacific

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نویسندگان: Chadwick. Stephen Robert, Paviour-Smith. Martin  
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ISBN (شابک) : 9783319226224, 3319226223 
ناشر: Springer International Publishing 
سال نشر: 2017 
تعداد صفحات: 0 
زبان: English 
فرمت فایل : EPUB (درصورت درخواست کاربر به PDF، EPUB یا AZW3 تبدیل می شود) 
حجم فایل: 12 مگابایت 

کلمات کلیدی مربوط به کتاب قایق های بزرگ قایق در آسمان: ستاره نجومی و نجوم در اقیانوس آرام جنوبی: Arrernte / مردم آراندا (C8) (NT SG53-02)، نجوم، نجوم--اساطیر--اقیانوسیه، نجوم--اقیانوس آرام جنوبی، صورت های فلکی، مردم Luritja / Loritja (C7.1) (NT SG52-04)، Pintupi مردم (C10) (NT SF52-11)، اسطوره‌شناسی، محاسبات نجومی، محاسبات ستاره‌ای، مردم وارلپیری (C15) (NT SF52-04)، قایق‌های چارتره، مردم یولگو (NT SD53)، اخترشناسی -- اقیانوس آرام جنوبی، نجوم - - اساطیر - اقیانوسیه، اقیانوسیه، اقیانوس آرام جنوبی، نجوم، طالع بینی، اساطیر

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6. The birds of the Southern Night Sky -- The birth of stars, The life and death of typical stars , The death of large stars, rebirth, and the source of human life, Birdlife in the Star Lore of the South Pacific, Motikitiki and Manu, The celestial birds of Australia, The cannibal turkey: a legend from the Murray River Region, Neilloan the mallee fowl, Bull-ant and the Boomerang, The Eaglehawk and the Crow, The Crow and the Pleiades, Callow-Gullouric war and the Eta Carinae Nebula, The bustard and the curlew, Pananggu and Wolumba, the egg thieves, Pananggu, the Lark, and Marela, the Hawk Man, The Emu with the sky on her back, The blind man and the Emu, Tchingal and the Possum, Marimari, the Emu Man, The Milky Way Kiwi, Summary.;3.Two Clouds and a Cross -- The Magellanic Clouds, Star Lore of the Magellanic Clouds, Wurrawilberoo and the Brolgas, The Mischievous Twins,; The Two Spinsters; The Magellanic Clouds in Australian Cultures; Two Brother Fishermen; The Two Sisters of Yirrkala; The Old Man and Woman in the Clouds; The Southern Cross; The Pointers; Mululu and His Four Daughters; The Constellation of the Southern Cross, the Pointers, and the Coal Sack.;5.Navigating by the Stars -- Captain James Cook in the South Pacific, Tupaia: portrait of a navigator, Way-finding in the Pacific, Star paths, Tahitian astronomy and navigation, The origins of navigation in Micronesia, The greedy carnivorous sandpiper, The Caroline star compass, Captain James Cook and the Transit of Mercury -- Maori navigation, Kupe and the giant octopus, A new beginning for Pacific navigation, Summary.;4. The Sky Is an Ocean -- The Nature of Constellations, The Star Lore of the Ocean, The Great Canoes in the Sky, Tagai the Captain The Stars of Tagai; Ngurunderi's Canoe in the Milky Way, The Constellation of Orion, The Fisherman in Orion's Belt and the Fish in the Sword of Orion, Orion's Belt as a Canoe, Maui and His Brothers Fish Their Way to Heaven, Fishing with Mautikitiki, Astronomical Objects in Maui's Fish Hook, KangoKangonga'a and the New Canoe, The Stars as Nets, The Stars as Sails, The Woman with Twelve Sons, The Sky as an Ocean, Sharks in the Sky, Hina and the Pet Shark, The Shark and the Stingray, Sharks Above the Torres Strait, Summary.;8. In the Beginning -- The layered universe, Djamar's bullroarer and Galalan the lawgiver, Maori heavens, The shape of the universe, from Chuuk, The birth of the stars and their placement in the heavens in New Zealand, The birth of the stars and thier placement in the heavens in Austrlia, The birth of the Tahitian stars, To and from heaven, A visit to the sky, The wife from the sky, Tawhaki's journey to the heavens, Olifate the trickster god, a sky-world tale from Micronesia, Tane and the three baskets of knowledge, Summary.;1. The wanderers through the stars -- The Sun and the Moon, Brother Sun, Brother Moon, Appetites of the Celestial Bodies, The Ridge Pole of Samusamu, The Woman in the Moon, The Sun as Prey, How Maui Slowed Down the Sun, The Woman Who Saved the World, Solar and Lunar Eclipses; Interpretations of Eclipses, Bue, the Eclipse Magician. Lunar Eclipses and the Celestial Snake Rona Snatched by the Moon, Eclipse Star Lore in Australia, The Planets, Venus, Death and the Toad, Tapuitea the Cannibal, Venus in Australia, Jupiter and Saturn, Kōpū and Pareārau, Husband and Wife, Mars, The Love Story of Wy-Young-Gurrie, Comets, Meteors, Comets and Meteors in the Star Lore of the South Pacific, Comets for New Zealand Maori, The Gift of Fire, The Broken-Hearted Mountain, Aurora Australis, The Southern Lights, Auroral Traditions in Australia and New Zealand, Punishment from the Sky, Ancestral Fires to the South, Summary.;Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and what they have done with this knowledge. From wives killing brothers to emus rising out of the desert and great canoes in the sky, this book offers the perfect blend of science, tradition and mythology to bring to life the most famous sights in the heavens above the southern hemisphere. The authors place this starlore in the context of contemporary understandings of astronomy. The night sky of southern societies is as rich in culture as it is in stars. Stories, myths and legends based on constellations, heavenly bodies and other night sky phenomena have played a fundamental role in shaping the culture of pre-modern civilizations throughout the world. Such starlore continues to influence societies throughout the Pacific to this day, with cultures throughout the region - from Australia and New Zealand in the south to New Guinea and Micronesia in the north - using traditional cosmology as a means of interpreting various aspects of everyday life.;7. The heavenly sisters -- Globular clusters, Open clusters, The Pleiades, Degindie and his would-be daughter-in-law, Meamei and Wurranah, The Miai Miai and the Berri Berri, Warweenggary and Karambil, Daisy Bates and Ooldea, Nyeeruna and the Yugarilya, The story of the Mungingee, The stars that nearly brought down a bridge, The canoe stars, The Pleiades, pollution, and menstruation on Wogeo Island. Manam Island and washing the Pleiades, Sakualepa and Kutnisingi, The Komba and the tattooed vagina, The Plaides as a calendrical marker in Micronesia, Matariki in Polynesia, The stars that defecate on Venus, The smashing of the Pleiades, The Pleiades for New Zealand Maori, The renaissance of Matariki celebrations in the South Pacific, Summary.;2. The Long Backbone of the Sky -- Milky Way, Star Lore of the Milky Way, The Milky Way as a Water Creature, Two Birds and a Water Serpent, The Two Women and the Water Serpent, The Milky Way as a Cosmic Eel, The Giant in the Sky, The Milky Way as a Pathway, How People Came to Chuuk in the Caroline Islands and How They Got Breadfruit, Morals, the Laws in the Sky, and the Milky Way of the Luritja and Arrernte, The Milky Way as a Rope: PīndakPīndak and His Daughters, The Dark Patches of the Milky Way, Two Greedy Boys, Arrernte Circumcision and the Dark Lanes in the Milky Way, The Walpiri Initiation, Summary.;9. Observing the universe in the modern age -- The naked eye view of the universe, Seeing the universe through the telescope, Seeing the universe through the eye of the camera, Astronomical photography, realism, and objectivity, The colour of the universe, Astronomical photography and aesthetics, Star lore and astrophotography.

فهرست مطالب

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
The Wanderers Through the Stars....Pages 1-33
The Long Backbone of the Sky....Pages 35-52
Two Clouds and a Cross....Pages 53-66
The Sky Is an Ocean....Pages 67-99
Navigating by the Stars....Pages 101-122
The Birds of the Southern Night Sky....Pages 123-149
The Heavenly Sisters....Pages 151-180
In the Beginning....Pages 181-196
Observing the Universe in the Modern Age....Pages 197-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-233

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