“I have the strongest of reasons to suspect that the ancients did not name the stars because »they imagined that they might be beings, or gods.

They named them because »they knew them as beings, in a way not very dissimilar to how I know my son or father.

They had direct, living relationships with the sky-families… as well as the Sun and our moon.

These were neither superstitious nor imaginal—they were not ‘bound to the Earth’ in the way we are, or suppose that all human were.

Travel in spacetime (and relation) does not require a vehicle other than those with which we are intrinsically endowed, and the fact that we moderns cannot believe this… is a substition of modernity to which the ancients could not be subjected.”

— an anonymous informant