Directory of Sun and Moon Lore Resources

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This category is for folklore concerning the skies: the sun, moon, planets, stars, comets, and northern light.

Resources in This Category

• Meteorite Legends

  http://www.meteoritemarket.com/legend.htm
  Meteorite lore excerpted from John G. Burke's "Cosmic Debris: Meteorites in History" (1986).

• Mystical-WWW: Full Moon Folklore

  http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/time/fmf.htm
  UK folklore for the 10 days after a full moon.

• Pleiades

  http://www.kitezh.com/sevensisters/pleiades.htm
  Eleven different interpretations of the constellation of the Pleiades.

• Seven Sisters

  http://www.kitezh.com/sevensisters/7sisters.htm
  Twelve versions of the Seven Sisters story as circulated among Aboriginal peoples.

• The Cosmology of the Ancient Balts

  http://www.astro.lt/balts/
  History and folklore of ancient Baltic beliefs concerning the cosmos.

• The Moon: Astrology, History, Science & Myth

  http://www.skyscript.co.uk/moon.html
  Exploration into the biological effects and common folklore and traditions of the Moon.

• The Sun and the Moon in Basque Folklore

  http://www.buber.net/Basque/Astro/node14.html
  Brief article by M. G. Ramos from Buber's Basque pages.

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