The Storyteller s Night Sky
Every Monday morning at 6:31 and 8:31, IPR News Radio looks into the night sky with Mary Stewart Adams, former Program Director and founder of the International Dark Sky Park at the Headlands, who has been telling stories of the night sky on IPR since 2013.
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In the 4th century, a man named Lactantius who served as an advisor to Constantine, likened the return of new life following the Vernal Equinox to the mythic bird known as the Phoenix, which he immortalized in a poem designed to establish the reasonableness and appeal of Christianity to his pagan critics.
He wrote:
There is a happy spot, retired in the first East, where the great gate of the eternal pole lies open. It is not, however, situated near to his rising in summer or in winter, but where the sun pours the day from his vernal chariot.
Lactantius goes on to describe in beautiful imagery how, when