Meaning of skylore | Babel Free

Definitions

The study, knowledge, or science of the sky and its apparent components (heavenly bodies, constellations, etc.).

uncountable, usually

Examples

“Modern astronomy has explained why this part of the sky is so sparsely starred and revealed facts which show that Arcturus is even more distinctive than previously thought. And there is even some twentieth-century skylore about this star.”

“Now, though, for long years now, since Amairgen learned the skylore and founded the Council of the Mages, the power drain in their magic runs only through the mage’s source, and the avarlith is not touched.”

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“The orientation of Teotihuacán was cosmological, its axial plan evolving from a ritual cave whose configuration matched the skylore — the mythologized astronomy — of the times.”

“The most important investigator of Germanic skylore was Otto Sigfrid Reuter (1876–1945). […] He then embarked on a more intensive study of the Germanic peoples and their star- and skylore. […] We still await the full redevelopment of a Germanic skylore (astronomy) and starlore (astrology), for which pioneering work was done by Robert Zoller in the Rune-Gild.”

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