Choose from one of the below perspectives for viewing the constellations of the night sky:

                     Adam & Eve                         Nahua (Aztec)                         Maya                              Babylonian

The Genesis Constellations are a new way of looking at the same old modern constellations. The International Astronomical Union established 88 constellations as the standard for both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The constellations covered in this website deal only with those of the Northern Hemisphere.

Of the 44 constellations that make up the night sky over North America, North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and much of Asia, The Genesis Constellations deals with 37 of them. These 37 constellations are reduced to only 13 by grouping many of them together to make a single image or icon.

By grouping the modern constellations together in this manner not only do the newly defined figures look like the characters from various world traditions but they behave like them as well. It becomes easy to visualize how the sky served as either the pneumonic device or the inspiration for major mythologies and traditions that predate civilization itself.

This way of interpreting the modern constellations makes several major world traditions compatible with a single map of astronomy without disregarding the current Greek and Roman perspectives.

There are several practical and moral benefits in this including the greater ease with which one can remember the relative position of hundreds of stars by simply remembering a single constellation as opposed to 10 of them.

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