Neil Gaimanās book Norse Mythology, and especially the audiobook, is incredible. Iād venture a guess that itās a fairer representation than, say, Marvel. Iāve also learned a bit of Norse cultural astronomy, and itās hella cool. Like what we know today as Auriga was for the Norse āthe battleground of the Aesirā, which is 1000x more dope than āoh, yeah, that circle is a, uhhhhhhhhhhh, charioteerā. Much of the other constellations they saw are lost to time and history, but itās easy to start looking at the sky and imagining what they saw. Many cultures saw Draco, for example, and that may have been the world serpent. One wonders if, where the Greeks and Arabs saw a scorpion, the Norse saw a short-handled hammer, especially given their more northerly latitude which would have hidden the hook of Scorpiusā tail below the southern horizon.
Neil Gaimanās book Norse Mythology, and especially the audiobook, is incredible. Iād venture a guess that itās a fairer representation than, say, Marvel. Iāve also learned a bit of Norse cultural astronomy, and itās hella cool. Like what we know today as Auriga was for the Norse āthe battleground of the Aesirā, which is 1000x more dope than āoh, yeah, that circle is a, uhhhhhhhhhhh, charioteerā. Much of the other constellations they saw are lost to time and history, but itās easy to start looking at the sky and imagining what they saw. Many cultures saw Draco, for example, and that may have been the world serpent. One wonders if, where the Greeks and Arabs saw a scorpion, the Norse saw a short-handled hammer, especially given their more northerly latitude which would have hidden the hook of Scorpiusā tail below the southern horizon.