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Constelații „metalice”
”Metallic” Constellations

Author(s): Zoia Maxim, Iharka Szücs-Csillik, Liviu Mircea
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences
Published by: MUZEUL ETNOGRAFIC AL TRANSILVANIEI
Keywords: Romanian constellations;metal;coins;stars;

Summary/Abstract: For ancient times, stars enthusiast the imagination of people. Distant starsmeant the unknown, the mystery for them. People had considered that stars arehelpful and guiding, on their trajectory. They had formed figure, from groupedstars, the so-called constellation, that they orient easier in the sky. Many of thecurrent names of the constellations are preserved since antiquity. Ancient culturessaw patterns in the heavens that resembled people, monsters or common objects,constellations that came to represent figures from myth. Some names ofconstellations can be related to metallurgy. We present those constellations thatcan be related to metal tools (occupations), with metal objects.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 237-245
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian