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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.
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Algol | The Demon Star
Tonight, we're looking at the constellation Perseus. In that constellation, he's said to be holding the head of Medusa, and the eye of Medusa is a star that blinks - a star called Algol, also known as the Demon Star. It's changing brightnes
Coma Berenices | A Celestial Offering
Tonight, we’re looking at a particularly strange constellation. It's about…hair. The constellation I’m talking about is Coma Berenices. A small, faint star pattern just above Virgo. It reaches its highest point at midnight at the beginning
Summer Triangle | The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
Tonight, we’re looking at the Summer Triangle, and we'll be hearing a story that comes to us from ancient China. The earliest known reference to this tale is from 2,600 years ago. And the fascinating part about this story is that, as the ag
Auriga | The Fall of Phaethon
Tonight, we're looking at the constellation Aruiga, the Charioteer. And we'll be telling a tale from Greek mythology, about the famous fall of Phaethon. While many know this story as a lesson of the consequences of ego and hubris, the famou
Orion | The Man Who Cut Off His Own Arm
Tonight we're going to the Philippines. More specifically, to the southern island of the Bukidnon people, a story which was written down in the early twentieth century. It's about a hunter named Magbangal. But what makes it fascinating isn'
Sun & Moon | The Thorny Road
Tonight we're looking at the Sun and the Moon. This story comes from the Hausa people of northern Nigeria. And it's a very simple story. But it answers a very strange question. Why does the Sun chase the Moon? And the incredible part about
Northern Crown | A Ring in the Grass
Tonight we're looking at the constellation Corona Borealis, also known as the Northern Crown. And for more than a century, books, astronomy websites and planetarium stories have connected that circle with a Native American tale called The C
Big Dipper | A Monster in the Woods
Tonight we're looking at the Big Dipper. It's a story about the Cosmic Hunt, and it comes from the Haudenosaunee, who resided in what's now New York and southern Ontario. This story contains a tiny, very specific detail that, when you first
Pleiades | The Sisters and the Thing That Follows
Tonight we're looking at the Pleiades. The one I want to tell you tonight is from the Kokatha people, who live in the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia. The tale I’m going to tell is just going to be my way of telling it in a modern
Andromeda | The Chained Beauty
Tonight we're looking at a constellation called Andromeda. When most people in the astro world hear that word, they immediately think of the Andromeda galaxy, not the constellation. But this story’s focus is on the tale behind Andromeda, wh
Moon | The One Who Wanted to Be the Sun
Tonight's story comes to us from the Mexica, the people most of us call the Aztecs, a myth written down in the fifteen hundreds, based on a much older tradition. Many say there's a face on the Moon. But to the Aztecs, they saw a rabbit. And
Solar Eclipse | The Creature that Chases the Sun
Tonight's story comes from the Nordic people. A story written down on the small island of Iceland. Almost everything we know about Norse mythology comes to us through two books that were written down in medieval Iceland. And inside those bo
Milky Way | The Stars That Were Never Named
Tonight we’ll be telling a story about the stars and the Milky Way. A story about a Coyote, and how the stars in the sky came to be. We are looking at it through the eyes of the people most of us know as the Navajo, whose homeland stretches
Scorpius | The Bloody Fish Hook in the Sky
Tonight, we’re sitting under the band of light that we call the Milky Way, where we’ll be telling the tale of the legendary demigod Maui. He’s typically associated with the constellation Scorpius. But instead of a scorpion, the tail and sti
South Star | The Missing Pole Star of the Southern Sky
Tonight we're looking at the skies of the southern hemisphere. And I'm going to tell you a story that is so remarkable, it proves this tale is not just a myth…but a memory. The focus of tonight’s story is in the southern sky, where the star
Orion | The Downfall of Earth's Greatest Hunter
Orion is probably the most recognizable star pattern in the night sky. Rivaling the Pleiades, rivaling the Big Dipper. The story of Orion is considered to be one of the oldest stories in the world. At least, some parts of it. Some say it’s
Sun | The God Who Butchers the Night
Tonight, we’re not looking at a particular constellation or pattern in the sky. Tonight, we’re looking at the thing we see every day: the Sun. And I’m going to tell you a story about why it has to fight its way into the sky every single mor
North Star | The Impossible Climb
Tonight I’ll be telling a tale about a star in the sky that everyone has heard of. It’s not the biggest star, or the brightest. But for a long time, it was one of the most important stars in history. It’s a star called Polaris. Or as we kno
Big Dipper | A Sacrifice Written in the Stars
An ancient story from the Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes tells us that the stars of the Big Dipper is a memorial, written in the night sky for anyone willing to look up and listen. They saw an animal. A hunter, a father, a hero. They
Star Stories with Ian lauer Trailer
Every culture in human history looked up at the same sky, and told stories about what they saw. Stories about Gods and Monsters, love and betrayal. Sacrifice and revenge. But those stories were more than entertainment. Encoded in them were
