Have you ever just stopped on a clear night and just looked up at the sky? Kinda neat,
isn't it? All those stars...I love to stargaze. I love to just look up at the sky, maybe try to pick out a
constellation or two. I even had a few chances to see comet Hale-Bopp. It's really cool; if you get a chance
to see it, do.
I remember one night when I was in high school; I was out in my back yard, just kind of
looking up at the sky for something to do. I was lying in the grass, looking up at one particular star. I
haven't a clue what star it was, it simply happened to be right above me at that moment. It was rather bright,
and it was twinkling, for lack of a better word. I just kept looking at it...the way it twinkled, it was almost
like it was trying to tell me something. I know, I know, it sounds weird. A big ball of gas hundreds of light
years away even knows I exist. Sure, why not. But then, there have been people who found guidance in the stars.
No, I'm not talking about the horoscope that you read in the paper every day. I mean that there are Native
American tribes who look to the stars to learn all sorts of good stuff. I guess it all depends on how you
look at it.
Which brings me to the point of this webpage. The night sky that at which I like to look because I think it's neat has served greater purposes than my entertainment. Numerous different cultures have looked to the sky to explain things that happen on earth. No fancy high-tech telescopes or satellites with which they gathered data, just their own two eyes, some common sense, and a little imagination. In these next few pages, I'm going to try and see what they saw when they looked up at the sky.
