The Ancients & the Stars with Amaya Rourke

Through the vastness of time, one thing we’ve all had in common was the sky, especially that of the night sky. The Stars, Moon and planets have meant many different things to our Ancestors. Many saw the cosmic dance these celestial bodies followed as an integral part of not only their Myths or Cosmology but having real agency in our lives and in events here on earth. There is much magic in the stars, and to discuss as well as elucidate such things is my guest for this episode, Amaya Rourke!

My guest for this Episode is Amaya Rourke! Amaya is an Animist, Necromantic Folk Witch, Astrological Magician, and Herbalist in training, who is fascinated both by our natural world and the hypnotic night sky. She has plenty of great things to say on her Instagram. To follow all the amazing things Amaya gets up to, click the pic below!

Show Notes

• Coming Into Relation With the Fixed Stars: Where to Learn from Amaya’s Site Heart Warrior Path – Look. I gotta say, this is the real “Meat and Potatoes” of links for this episode. Amaya has some unreal resources here. Everything I put forward after this is merely a digestif
• Figures in the Sky – I adore this Website. Please spend some time here, see some of the similarities between what we take from the stars
• Stellarium – A Planetarium from your computer screen
• Archaeoastronomy on Coursera – How would you like to take a course on the Study of the Stars for FREE? This is an excellent opportunity if the content of this episode is interesting to you! Sign up at your convenience
• Ancient Cultures and the Stars
• Lunar Calendar marked on Bone
• World’s Oldest Temple Built to Worship the Dog Star
• People and the Sky: Our Ancestors and the Cosmos by Anthony Aveni
• Ancient Egyptian Sky Lore: Rethinking the Conventional Wisdom by Joanne Conman
• Ancient Egyptian Astronomy
• The Sirius Lore
• The Orientation of Ancient Egyptian Temples
• Temple of the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian Experience of the Sacred by Jeremy Naydler – One of my favourite books of all time. I literally reread it for the 8th time four months ago
• Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple – Temple by name, Temple by study
• The Decans of Ancient Egypt: An Astrologer’s Approach
• A Timeline of Decans by Theresa Ainsworth
• Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos by Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy
• Fixed Stars, Why Bother? by Bernadette Brady
• The Origin of the Zodiac
• How Ancient Cultures Explained Comets and Meteors
• Black God from Navajo Mythology
• Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore by Claire Farrer and Ray Williamson
• Star.Ships – A Prehistory of the Spirits by Gordon White
• Algol – The Demon Star
• The Oxford Companion to World Mythology by David Leeming – Tonnes of greatness here
• Couple of Amazing Artifacts here – The Antikeythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disc
• The Power of Stars: How Celestial Observations Have Shaped Civilization by Bryan Penprase – Interesting info here but fair warning- they shit all over Astrology in an oh-so-materialist way
• The Book of Flesh & Feather by Rev. Zemmi
• The Origins of the World’s Mythologies by E. J. Michael Witzel – Incredibly fascinating book

Music is from Michael Levy – The Egyptian Harp