Description
Ancient records describe celestial battles, fiery serpents, and dragons crossing the sky. This episode explores how comets, meteors, and fireballs may have been witnessed as living sky-serpents in myth and legend. Using codex-style imagery and global traditions, this breakdown connects the visual language of “dragons,” “serpents,” and “gods at war” to real sky phenomena: bright nuclei, glowing tails, fragmentation, and lingering atmospheric haze.
Topics covered: comet-as-dragon symbolism, celestial omens, ancient skywatching, codices and iconography, why a comet tail looks like a serpent, and how stories preserve eyewitness impressions across generations.
short video extracted from the Cosmography101 class series
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