On a given night
With stars labelled
Image by Ken Christison
North American interpretation
Shang-di, aka, the Jade Emperor
Stone carving from the Wuliang Shrine, ca. 150 CE
Starry Plough flag of the Irish Citizen Army, 1914
From Abdul Rahman bin Omar al-Sufi’s Pictures of the forty-eight planets, ca. 950 CE
Egypt, from the tomb of Seti I at the Valley of the Kings, ca. 1280 BCE
Photograph by M. Sanz de Lara
Charles’s Wain, aka Charles’s Wagon, Europe, ca. 1500s CE
From Gaylord Johnson’s The Star People, 1921
As part of Ursa Major, described by Ptolemy ca. 150 CE
From Johann Bayer’s Uranometria, 1603