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skylore en · NOUN

Etymology

From sky + lore.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The study, knowledge, or science of the sky and its apparent components (heavenly bodies, constellations, etc.).
   • 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. 1984, Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:
   • 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. 2018 November 13, Edred Thorsson, chapter 12, in Rune Might: Secret Practices of the German Rune Magicians, Rochester: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, Timing, page 140:
   • 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. 1996, Geoffrey Cornelius, Paul Devereux, “Teotihuacán”, in The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets: A Visual Key to Celestial Mysteries, London: Pavilion, →ISBN, page 153:
   • ibidem, page 173
   • 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. 1981 June 14, Astronomy, →ISSN, skylore, page 35, column 1:

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Relateds

starlore