The celestial maerchen affords a direct record of the impression made by celestial phenomena on the consciousness of an age whose ideas were as yet circumscribed by the environment.
But, on the whole, celestial phenomena play a passing and an exceedingly variable role in the beliefs of primitive man.
Of course, we also find many clear traces of the influence of celestial phenomena in the mythological conceptions of the Babylonians and Egyptians, of the Hindoos, the Greeks, the Germans, etc.
Terrestrial Gravitation as an Incepting Influence The attractive influence of gravitation appears as an incepting agency in terrestrial as well as in celestial phenomena.
But for the broadest aspects of the latter agencies it is necessary to revert once more to celestial phenomena.
We find even now proof of this old sacerdotal science in the zodiac sculptured on the ceilings of certain temples, and in the hieroglyphic inscriptions relating to celestial phenomena.
In astronomy, Ptolemy reigned supreme, and in the explanation of celestial phenomena no one dreamt or dared to dream of departing in any way from the traditionally sacred system.
The knowledge of celestial phenomena made an essential part of the theology of the Egyptians as it did of the Chaldaeans.
He disbelieves in the habit of finding, in myths of terrestrial occurrences, reflections of celestial phenomena.
The theory of Daphne is of the kind protested against by Mannhardt, where he warns us against looking in most myths for a 'mirror-picture' on earth of celestial phenomena.
He protests against the whole tendency to find prototypes of all Aryan myths in the Veda, and to think that, with a few exceptions, all mythology is a terrestrial reflection of celestial phenomena (p.
The earliest records of comets are by the Chinese, who were careful observers of celestial phenomena.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "celestial phenomena" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
