I'll be honest some of what you're talking about is a bit over my head, with my crap eyesight and having lived in a very light polluted city most of my life I never really learned the proper constellations or how to find things in the sky, through in my complete fail in having a sense of direction and I can't even find the north star half the time, I think I confuse it with venus
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Ooh, that's PRECISELY the kind of stuff I'm looking for! I know there will be some differences between Welsh and Gaelic constellations (after all, they have slightly different stories/mythos), but the Northern Welsh of Gwynedd were originally from Strathclyde where they co-habitated with the local Picts back when they all called themselves the Gododdin. I AM actually looking for both Welsh and Gaelic constellations.
Books have shown me a few; there's an out-of-print two volume set called Caer Sidhe that focuses on Welsh constellations (example: what we call Virgo was likely either Goewin the Footholder of King Math, or Cerridwenn the Magical Mother)and it's 'commonly known' that the Welsh thought the Big Dipper represented Arthur. And you're right; one called Salmon was probably Irish and came from the Salmon of Knowledge. CuChulainn the Warrior is surely up there, along with Culainn's Dog.
But yeah, anything you can remember/dig out would be appreciated!
The Great Hound, there was one called the great hound. in fact that was the first time I'd run across that word and was when I learnt it was another name for dog! (we're talking I was somewhere between six and nine years old...and I just had notebooks full of whatever I had learned that day. I was one of those whats this and why that kids.)
Definitely check the appalachian sites, if there are any. Damn, my aunt who taught all this is still living but 93, senile and deaf or I'd call her up and pick her brain for you. :( and much as I love you dearly, I'm not tackling the fortress o boxes out in the garage with the weather we have coming in. Once the weather gets better though if you still need it I will go see if those three boxes made in back here with me!
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Books have shown me a few; there's an out-of-print two volume set called Caer Sidhe that focuses on Welsh constellations (example: what we call Virgo was likely either Goewin the Footholder of King Math, or Cerridwenn the Magical Mother)and it's 'commonly known' that the Welsh thought the Big Dipper represented Arthur. And you're right; one called Salmon was probably Irish and came from the Salmon of Knowledge. CuChulainn the Warrior is surely up there, along with Culainn's Dog.
But yeah, anything you can remember/dig out would be appreciated!
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Definitely check the appalachian sites, if there are any. Damn, my aunt who taught all this is still living but 93, senile and deaf or I'd call her up and pick her brain for you. :( and much as I love you dearly, I'm not tackling the fortress o boxes out in the garage with the weather we have coming in. Once the weather gets better though if you still need it I will go see if those three boxes made in back here with me!
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