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CULTURE AND COSMOS A Journal of the History of Astrology and Cultural Astronomy
Vol. 9 no 1, Spring/Summer 2005
Published by Culture and Cosmos
and the Sophia Centre Press,
in partnership with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David,
in association with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology
in Culture,
University of Wales Trinity Saint David,
Faculty of Humanities and the Performing Arts
Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, SA48 7ED, UK.
www.cultureandcosmos.org
Cite this paper as: Kurtik, Gennadij and Alexander Militarev, ‘
Once More on the Origin of Semitic and Greek Star Names: an
Astronomic-Etymological Approach Updated’, Culture and
Cosmos, Vol. 9 no 1, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 3-43.
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