It's out! After three years of research and writing, I've finally released my 364 page book on the lost constellations of Northern Europe.
The book is packed with wonderful illustrations by my amazing wife Alex Wynn-Rubsam!
Long before the people of Northern Europe had ever heard names like Orion or Scorpio, the ancient tribes of the Celtic, Germanic and Slavic peoples had their own unique systems of constellations and magic tied to the great shapes and phenomena of the skies.
Sky Wolves is an exploration of the ancient Northern European sky lore that has almost been completely eradicated over the course of the past several thousand years. Each chapter presents a constellation in summary for the curious, then follows it with enough research and scholarly information for skeptics and passionate re-constructionists alike. The text is the result of years of scholarly research, designed and laid out in a way that makes it accessible to practitioners, researchers, shamans, and even people who just want a basic idea of what their Northern European ancestors saw in the sky before the constellations and myths of the classical zodiac all but erased the rich heritage of sky lore that we are, only now, starting to piece together again.
I've also included a brief snippet of the book on my Patreon for supporters at the $1 level. The short section on Patreon concerns the Norse god Thor, and the constellation that was associated with him.
Get it here:
www.patreon.com/eswynn
From the back cover:
Sky Wolves: Lost Constellations and Stellar Magic In Old Norse and Ancient European Cosmology
Long before the people of Northern Europe had ever heard names like Orion or Scorpio, the ancient tribes of the Celtic, Germanic and Slavic peoples had their own unique systems of constellations and magic tied to the great shapes and phenomena of the skies.
Sky Wolves is an exploration of the ancient Northern European sky lore that has almost been completely eradicated over the course of the past several thousand years. Each chapter presents a constellation in summary for the curious, then follows it with enough research and scholarly information for skeptics and passionate re-constructionists alike. The text is the result of years of scholarly research, designed and laid out in a way that makes it accessible to practitioners, researchers, shamans, and even people who just want a basic idea of what their Northern European ancestors saw in the sky before the constellations and myths of the classical zodiac all but erased the rich heritage of sky lore that we are, only now, starting to piece together again.
ISBN#: 9781678141080
How to order:
Print: $20.00:
[Lulu]
(Amazon, etc. coming soon)
Ebook: $5.99:
[PDF] [EPUB] [LIT] [MOBI]
(Kindle and Nook coming soon)
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