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Star Stories with Ian Lauer
by Ian Lauer
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About the show
Retelling ancient star myths and uncovering the knowledge within them.
Every culture that has ever existed looked up at the same sky.
The same Orion. The same Pleiades. The same river of stars cutting across the darkness.
And almost every one of them, whether separated by oceans, language, or centuries, looked at them, and told a story about what they saw. Stories about hunters and lovers and gods and monsters. Stories that survived wars, migrations, and the collapse of entire civilizations. Stories that were passed down, generation after generation, for thousands of years.
Star Stories brings those stories back to life.
Each episode takes a constellation, a star, or a region of the night sky, and retells the ancient myths and legends that human cultures built around it.
The storytelling is immersive and narrative, retold in a modern format. At the end, we decode what information these cultures were embedding into the story.
From the deserts of Ancient Egypt to the frozen lands of the Nordic people, we tell the stories from cultures around the world, to reconnect you to the night sky.
Hosted by Ian Lauer. A Stargazer Studios production.