Raoul Schrott - "Atlas of the starry sky and creation myths of mankind"

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Atlas of the starry sky and creation myths of mankind
A unique book project: Raoul Schrott's great atlas of the starry skies provides a completely new view of humanity and its far-reaching history.

"In a time before writing, our starry sky was a movie theater of the night" - Raoul Schrott. With their immense imagination, people created their oldest works of art in the stars and thus depicted their cultures. This atlas brings together 17 starry skies from all continents: from the Ancient Egyptians to the Australian Aborigines, from China, India and Tahiti, from the Inuit, Bushmen and Tuareg. Our Big Dipper was a divine parrot for the Maya, the one-legged god of thunderstorms for the Incas, a moose for the Inuit and a bier for the Arabs. Raoul Schrott combines these star legends into a unique epic of human history.

With special features: printed cloth binding, thread stitching with two ribbon markers, colored endpapers, printed in two colors and with 16 starry sky maps on eight large-format posters in an insert pocket in the book.

Raoul Schrott, born in 1964, has received numerous awards, including the Peter Huchel Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize. His most recent books published by Hanser include Homers Heimat (2008) and his translation of the Iliad (2008), Gehirn und Gedicht (2011, together with brain researcher Arthur Jacobs), the story Das schweigende Kind (2012), the translation of Hesiod's Theogony (2014), the poetry collection Die Kunst an nichts zu glauben (2015) as well as Erste Erde (Epos, 2016), Politiken & Ideen (essays, 2018), Eine Geschichte des Windes oder Von dem deutschen Kanonier der erstmals die Welt umrundete und dann ein zweites und ein drittes Mal (novel, 2019) and Inventur des Sommers (Über das Abwesende, 2023). Raoul Schrott is currently working on an extensive atlas of starry skies on behalf of the Art and Nature Foundation. In 2023 he held the Ernst Jandl lectureship at the University of Vienna.
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