Explore the incredible spiritual message of the myths of ancient Greece in an entirely new light, as you learn to speak the language of celestial metaphor in which they are in fact speaking to us.  This book is the second in a multi-volume series which demonstrates that virtually all the sacred traditions of humanity share a common, celestial foundation: they are Star Myths, based upon the constellations and heavenly cycles which are used as esoteric allegories to convey profound spiritual truths.You will be amazed at the new understanding that this approach offers to the ancient myths.  Included is a complete analysis of the celestial aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey, along with new insights which can perhaps only be seen when they are examined in light of the celestial language which, this volume demonstrates, they are undoubtedly speaking.This volume is like a "Rosetta Stone" of the celestial language which forms the basis of virtually all of the ancient myths, texts and sacred traditions from around the world. Please don't be intimidated by the number of pages! Includes over 200 illustrations, many of them full-page illustrations.-- Preview content along with complete Table of Contents available at "star myth world." I believe this book is the first extensive application of the principles of what is sometimes called "Astrotheology" to the myths of ancient Greece. I was amazed at the richness of the insights that can arise when we view the Greek myths through this perspective.  Although I have loved the myths of ancient Greece since I was a child, and have taught Homer's Odyssey at the college level (at the US Military Academy at West Point), when I began to listen to them in the "language" that I now understand the myths to be speaking -- that is to say, the language of the heavenly cycles -- it was like hearing them for the first time, all over again. This is not an attempt to take away at all from the other rich and wonderful aspects of the Greek myths which men and women and children all over the world know and love and have enjoyed about them for centuries, but rather to say that an understanding of their celestial and esoteric foundation suddenly opens up entirely new depths of meaning in these ancient treasures of humanity -- "dizzying depths," I feel it is safe to say (perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that the depths these ancient myths can offer to us are literally endless or bottomless in their profundity). As just as a taste of what the understanding of their celestial nature opens up to the reader, I might offer that this book explores: New insight into the role of Artemis as the guardian of childbirth and protector of women and children, - New insight into the association of the act of Kronos and "left-handedness," as well as the adjective "wily" which is applied by the ancient poets to both Kronos and Odysseus (and the possible celestial reasons for that modifier), - New insight into the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, - The celestial background for the myth-pattern of the "unsuccessful retrieval from the realm of the dead" found in numerous places in Greek myth (such as in the story of Persephone who eats of a pomegranate, or of Eurydice and Orpheus) but which is also found around the world including in the sacred traditions  of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and in the Kojiki of ancient Japan and elsewhere, - The celestial background for the myth-pattern of the "incomplete baptism" which could have made the baptized child immortal but instead leaves the baptized child vulnerable to mortality (seen in the story of Achilles, for instance, but also found in the Maui cycle of the Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean, and also in the Isis and Osiris cycle of ancient Egypt), - The strong parallels between certain events in the Odyssey and in the New Testament, and the celestial patterns that almost certainly account for those parallels, - The celestial "map" or "chart" of the long journey home described in the Odyssey, and its profound spiritual meaning for each of us, - The amazing celestial foundation of the famous encounter with the Cyclops, - And the probable celestial solution for the much-debated "trial of the bow" at the climax of the Odyssey, which has given so many commentators difficulty over the years, when trying to explain it as a literal, "terrestrial" feat (and note that the "bow-trial" is an extremely pervasive mythological pattern, which is also found in the Heracles [Hercules] cycle of myths, but also in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana of ancient India, for example). Once we understand how to begin to hear the myths in the celestial language that they are speaking, I believe it opens up a path for us to pursue them for our own personal growth and positive transformation, if desired -- for a lifetime (or perhaps for many lifetimes!). I truly hope that you will be blessed by the incredible ancient wisdom of the myths as you begin to see t