The Song of the Stars

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Is the world ordered and arranged or is it a chaos? Was there a time when the universe was not? Was it generated and will it end or is it eternal and everlasting? Who made it, if anyone? Ancient and medieval stargazers contemplated these and other questions, looking to the heavens to solve riddles of existence, fate, consciousness, and beauty, and to navigate ways of being and moving in the world. Listening in on the song of the stars, this class encounters premodern religions, literatures, and the enchanted cosmos.