kallis@pen.DEC (03/19/85)
From: RHEA::DECWRL::MAILER-DAEMON "Mail Delivery Subsystem" 19-MAR-1985 09:08 To: <pen::kallis> Subj: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 Received: from DECWRL by DEC-RHEA with SMTP; Tue, 19 Mar 85 06:07-PST Received: from DEC-RHEA.ARPA by decwrl.ARPA (4.22.01/4.7.34) id AA25370; Tue, 19 Mar 85 06:06:42 pst Date: Tuesday, 19 Mar 1985 05:56:17-PST Message-Id: <8503191406.AA25370@decwrl.ARPA> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- inews: There is no such newsgroup as net.astron.. 554 "|/usr/lib/news/recnews -o. '.d.e.c .engineering .network'"... unknown mailer error 1 ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: from DEC-RHEA.ARPA by decwrl.ARPA (4.22.01/4.7.34) id AA25366; Tue, 19 Mar 85 06:06:42 pst Message-Id: <8503191406.AA25366@decwrl.ARPA> Date: Tuesday, 19 Mar 1985 05:56:17-PST From: kallis@pen.DEC Newsgroups: net.astron To: net.astron Subject: Consettaltion In wake of speaking of the Chinese constellayions, a suggestion: you might show an interesting comparison between both stars and planets of ancient civilizations. Western civilization has a certain ethnocent- rism on Greaco-Roman figures (though "Libra," "Leo," and other animals, even "Draco" aren't clearly Greaco-Roman), motly through indoctrination in Humanities courses. The Babylonians used THEIR pantheon (Ishtar, Marduk, etc.) for the planets, and the ancient Egyptian constellations were significantly different from the familiar ones. A table would pro- vide an interesting comparison between the ways different cultures treated the heavens. If anyone out there's a specialist in the more obscure types of cultural representations of the constellations (e.g., Polynesian, Aus- tralian abo, or pre-Columbian South American), why not forward them to the staff at McDonald Observatory for inclusion in their future newsletters? Regards, Steve Kallis, Jr