URANOS :  STARS, CONSTELLATIONS  AND   SKY  LORE   

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Astronomy in the Arab and Berber

contemporary cultures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Étienne Dinet, Fête nocturne

Patrimoine populaire / Ethnoastronomie

Stars and constellations after the Tuaregs (in French)

The West Saharian sky by Vincent Monteil (in French)

Bedouin Star-Lore in Sinai and Al-Naqab (Negev) by Clinton Bailey

Matériaux par figures célestes

AL-THURAYA / PLEIADES :

Soraya’s Legend (Near East) byLeila Hadad, AFA, http://www.afanet.fr/CMC/Contes.aspx

Pleiades (Marocco), Najima Thay Thay, Contes et légendes du Maroc, 2001.

NASH / URSA MAJOR : 

* The legende of Nash and his Daughters (Syrie) by Bernard Verdier, 1938.

* Testimony on Banât Na‘sh (Gaza) by Sivan Halévy, 2004.

 

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