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When the Dragon Wore the Crown: Putting Starlight Back Into Myth

First, I should explain the premise of the book. In essence, this book is about the precession of the equinoxes, something that has been of particular interest to astrologers for the past few decades and, debatably, to people of earlier eras , especially in light of our recent entry into the Age of Aquarius from our previous Age of Pisces. The ways in which this transition might impact world cultures and spiritual activities in particular has been of interest to the modern Pagan community for decades, and for esotericists, magicians, and other occult practitioners for well over a century.

However, this book is interesting in that it focuses on something else apart from the position of the sun at the Vernal Equinox VE that gives the various ages their zodiacal correspondence—what Cerow throughout refers to as the "Circle"—which is the "Center," namely the North Celestial Pole NCP and its shift through the ages due to the wobble of the earth. For a long while, the "Center" was the constellation Draco, and one star from it in particular, Thuban, the "heart of the dragon," was close to being the pole star, closer than Polaris or any other star in several millennia of recorded history.

In and of itself, this is a fascinating observation, and one that bears further consideration. Unfortunately, the further consideration it receives spans the entire book, as this fact is established very early in its pages, and everything after that is marshaled as evidence for its importance, not simply for myth, but for history as well.

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When our ancestors gazed upon the skies thousands of years ago they looked up into the center of Creation and saw a mighty Dragon, a great celestial serpent . Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Don Cerow is a certified NCGR Level IV astrologer known.

This is where the book falls severely short and has its greatest flaw, in mistaking classical astrology for astronomy and thus for science in general , and therefore for an assimilation of astrology and myth to science and history. This common interpretation, that religion is simply primitive science, and myth primitive psychology, is one that is held by atheist anti-religionist skeptics as alike as it is by New Age spiritualists and archetypalists. What makes it worse in the present context is that it fails to take into account that the interpretation of the classical astrological constellations was not universal throughout antiquity and especially cross-culturally and into prehistory , and thus myths that are only given literate form in the late centuries B.

How this impacts some of Cerow's arguments will be dealt with further in a few moments, but this is like saying that the Serpent Mound in Ohio, shaped as it is like a snake approaching and attempting to swallow an egg, is evidence that the Fort Ancient culture of the Ohio Valley in the 11 th century C. Modern science cannot be read into prehistoric and premodern historic cultures' mythological and cultural artifacts, and then be re-interpreted as having spiritual significance derived from their scientific validity. Echoes of the Ancient Skies.

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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. When the Dragon Wore the Crown: When our ancestors gazed upon the skies thousands of years ago they looked up into the center of Creation and saw a mighty Dragon, a great celestial serpent with wings circling ceaselessly above them, night after night, century after century. When the Dragon Wore the Crown is a ground breaking book that covers a period of over six thousand years, focusing on what astrologe When our ancestors gazed upon the skies thousands of years ago they looked up into the center of Creation and saw a mighty Dragon, a great celestial serpent with wings circling ceaselessly above them, night after night, century after century.

When the Dragon Wore the Crown is a ground breaking book that covers a period of over six thousand years, focusing on what astrologers would call the Ages of Gemini, Taurus and Aries and taking us through the period of classical astronomy with the Greeks and Romans approx. When the Dragon Wore the Crown opens and closes with the Chinese mythological tradition and touches on Sumerian, Babylonian, Phoenician, Hindu, Norse, Native American and even Mayan myths, weaving together many of their celestial serpentine similarities.

It focuses primarily on the role of the constellation Draco, the astronomical marker of the North Celestial Pole for literally thousands of years. The importance of this simple astronomical observation helped facilitate the study of the calendar, navigation, farming and social organization.