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The Aztecs had huge pyramids that were in almost all grand cities. Those pyramids were dedicated to the solar system and there gods, who they belive created it. Below is an aztec pyramid. Learn more at this page.

Many early civilizations developed myths of sky gods or goddesses, to help them explain the sky and the stars. These deities were usually particularly important or powerful, associated with or the most powerful gods or goddesses in their pantheons. The stories below provide an overview of a few myths connected with sky gods and goddesses known by early civilizations around the world.

African myths

Olorun and Olokun
the first gods on Earth.
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The SUN GOD LIZA
Liza was the sun god to the Fon people of West Africa. Mawu
was the Moon god. The two were twins, but were also lovers. Together, they created the Universe.

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If we want to understand how and why the constellations were made, we have to look back many thousands of years. We have to go back at the time when people looked at the sky as a sort of fear and comfort, but most of all as a wonder and mystery. Some people thought that the sky was the battlefield where gods and demons fought. Ancient people used the sky as a calendar. Just by remembering year after year what star rose with the sun or disappeared with the darkening sky, they could predict which season was coming. We can be certain that ancient people looked on the sky, and the many events that happened there, with wonder and mystery. Our evidence comes from fanciful stories about the stars. There are a lot of constellations in the sky, such as the Ursa Minor, the Ursa Major, Draco, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, and even more. Every constellations has a story because when they invented the constellations, they didn´t have an explanation for seeing does patterns in the sky, so they made up stories.

Invent your own constellation

Why not try linking the stars in your own way, first to form a simple shape, and then using your imagination to create an animal or other figure. This is a good way to remember the constellations and the stars they contain. If you work on it little by little, you will end up with full of constellations of your own invention. You could also make up stories about your constellations, or even about two or more constellations grouped together.

Observing the sky

If you look at the night sky without a telescope or a pair of binoculars, you will see what the ancient people saw. You can see about 3,000 stars when you are looking at the night sky far from city lights.The ancient Greeks, Romans, and other people of other ancient civilizations observed groups of stars in the sky. They named the stars after animals and mythological creatures. For example, Leo was called after a lion, Pisces for two fish, and Taurus for a bull. There are also some constellations called after heroes and heroines in Greek mythology, such as Andromeda. Some constellations can only be seen in a certain season, due to the Earth´s rotation around the sun. The part of the sky visible at night at a particular place changes as the earth moves around the sun.Ancient people noticed that certain stars are arranged in patterns shaped like human beings, animals, or objects. Many ancient civilizations associated some of does patterns with the mythology. Some of the names of the constellations come from Greek myths.Some groups of stars form only part of a constellation. Asterisms are smaller groups of stars. For example, the Big Dipper, that is in the Ursa Major.

These are some of the constellations

and myths about the sky and the universe.

Asian Myths

Chinese

The godess of the moon in China,
Ch'ang O is the was a chinese goddess of the moon, she was the younger sister of the water spirit. Shen I, the ''Excellent Archer''. He was given the drug of immortality by the gods.

"I am the flight of the hare."

Taiwan
Yue-Laou - Taiwanese Love God

In the western culture, you have several love gods, such as “Venus” , “Cupid”, “Eros” and “Aphrodite”. In Taiwanese culture, we have Yue-Laou (the old man under the moon).

Japan
Amaterasu the Japanese Sun Godess:

The oldest religoin in Japan is called Shinto and the Shintos belived in this sungodess Amaterasu. She hid in cave of heavens because of her brothe treated her really awful, and after she closed the entrans with a hugmongus stone.

The world started going dark and evil spitits came out.

Planet Myths
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Jupiter

Jupiter is known as the planet of storms, because Jupiter has almost all the time storms.
The Greek called Jupitor Zeus.
Zeus was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Zeus was the father of the heroes Perseus and Heracles, the latter of who once wrestled him to a draw. When he had grown up, Zeus caused Cronus to vomit up his sisters and brothers, and these gods joined him in fighting to wrest control of the universe from the Titans and Cronus, their king. Having vanquished his father and the other Titans, Zeus imprisoned most of them in the underworld of Tartarus.

Greek Myths

ORION

The sky was fascinating to the Greeks.
They thought that the stars were awesome.
One myth about the sky is one called Orion. Click the link to read the story of Orion.

Native American Myths

The Native American have a consteallation called the Great Bear.
It has three hunters chasing after it. Click to read more about the Natice Americans.

Tonatecuhs the fith sun god in Mexico-Asia

In Mexico there lived the Aztecs and they believed in Tunaticuh and that threre had lived four sungods passed the time but that all four died att the end of each cosmic era.But the fith sungod tunaticuhs era is still not taken.

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Ella (HMS)
Joke (ICSA)
Levi (HMS)
Ma-Nogoy (ICSA)
Marta (ICSA)
Nuhad (ICSA)
Chade (ICSA)
Abigail (ICSA)