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Under our Night Sky

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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What Did the Ancients Think of the Stars?

Em seir: Can you give us a sense of what some of the different ancient civilizations thought the stars were? When the greeks looked at the sky, the egyptians, the simerians, i suppose, the mayans, the aztecs. For most of them, they didn't really know what the stars were, so they tried to endow them with a kind of meaning. Em seir: I never felt as mu, so well, i know that later on in the show, we now have got it set up for a purtwy off between you ande and john. John actually wone which was kind of then really affected bryan's

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