Ancient African Skies

When I get time™ I’d like to have a go at writing a SETI paper from a classical perspective. There’s a lot that can be said about biological and astronomical speculation in ancient Greece and the ancient authors weren’t averse to mixing the two. In the meantime there’s an article on the Borana calendar at the SETI Institute.

The Borana calendar is interesting to me because it’s based to a large extent around the constellation Triangulum. The name Triangulum should pretty well sum up how distinctive the constellation is. It’s an important reminder that just because a star or a might seem important to us, it wasn’t automatically important to the ancients.