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    The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars
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    1. chrisaldrich 29 Mar 2022
      Lakota Elder Arvol Looking Horse explains that ‘Star knowledge islike a mirror. The stars are up there, and we have the stars down

      here.’ This philosophical standpoint is understood in the Lakota/Dakota language with one word: Kapemni—‘As is above, so is below: What is in the stars is on Earth; and what is on Earth is in the stars.’

      The Lakota/Dakota language word Kapemni captures the idea that what is in the stars mirrors what is on Earth.

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