I thought this book was thought provoking. It's a shame we can't see the night sky due to light pollution. I bet we'd find the sky just as absorbing as our ancestors did! It's easy to believe that so many were inspired by what they saw. It explains a great deal about our ancient symbols and how they are so similar world wide. I am sure we are still influenced by ideas from our ancestors as we are just as curious about space as they were! Great book!

This book starts off very interesting looking at early symbolism of man. But the majority of book is about how science has changed especially in regards to comets. The author discusses research that studies older religions and saw that comet activity appeared in the lore of populations all over the planet. The real question is does this make the events true of all of them or just some of them. The author doesn’t delve too deeply into stories of the religions except for a short portion near the end. Not much time or psychological insight is spent on these stories. This book is more hard science aimed as a way to explain certain patterns as opposed to a true look into the motivation of the symbolism.

nonfiction, publish-or-perish, astrophysics, space-science, comparative-religion, religious-symbolism

This well researched exploration of the perceptions of ancient peoples around the globe and how what they saw was interpreted in similar ways. Provides a lot of subject matter to examine and consider. I thought that it was well done and worthy of Charles River Editors.
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Kronos Press via Book Review Buzz and NetGalley.