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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 4529828" data-attributes="member: 18363">The Ancient Greeks believed that initially the sky was utterly dark. Most stars were placed in the sky by deities - eternal fires forming patterns that represented things they wished to be remembered (rather akin to a burial mound or monument). However, I believe they had a different interpretation for the starts of the zodiac (although I may be wrong in this). But once you determine what stars are consider this: to the ancient greeks the only real difference between a star and a planet was that a planet was not fixed in its position in the sky. Indeed, as I recall, the term they used for planet came from a word meaning "messenger." Also, consider that the constellations - and the planets that move through them - were long used by astrologers to determine the will of the gods and the fates of various people, places, and events. Don't forget comets, known to some ancients as 'bearded stars'. They were viewed as stars that - for unknown reasons - were no longer affixed. Something so against the natural order was seen as potentially calamitous - thus the often negative reputation such had for much of history. As for myself, I've considered using the crystal sphere idea. This would state that at the outer edges of the solar system (or geo system, depending on your setting) there exists a 'solid' crystal wall, into which are embedded numerous eternal fires - the stars. Another idea is to use something akin to real world physics - ie: the stars are huge spheres of some type of fiery element, of which the sun is the nearest.</blockquote>

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