Editing Indigenous Astronomy, Navigation, and Cosmological Knowledge (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Polynesian Wayfinding''' — The non-instrumental oceanic navigation system of Pacific Island peoples — using stars, swells, wind, birds, phosphorescence, and cloud patterns to navigate across thousands of kilometers of open ocean.
* '''The Emu in the Sky''' — Aboriginal Australian "dark constellation" astronomy: patterns formed by dark nebulae in the Milky Way rather than stars — including the celestial emu that signals emu egg-laying season when it appears on the horizon at dusk.
* '''Mayan Long Count Calendar''' — The Mayan calendrical system tracking astronomical cycles across 5,125-year periods — including precise calculations of the Venus synodic cycle (584 days vs. modern measurement of 583.92).
* '''Ethnoastronomy''' — The study of how different cultures understand and use astronomical knowledge.
* '''The Nazca Lines''' — Geoglyphs on the Peruvian coast, some aligned with astronomical events — debated as astronomical markers, ceremonial sites, or water management indicators.
* '''Archaeoastronomy''' — The interdisciplinary study of how past cultures understood astronomical phenomena — Stonehenge, Newgrange, Chichen Itza, Angkor Wat.
* '''Star Paths''' — (Polynesian). Routes defined by the rising and setting points of specific stars — used as highways across the Pacific.
* '''The Hokule'a''' — The Hawaiian double-hulled voyaging canoe (launched 1975) that demonstrated traditional Polynesian navigation by sailing from Hawaii to Tahiti without instruments.
* '''Inuit Astronomical Knowledge''' — Arctic sky and weather reading enabling survival navigation in conditions where stars may be invisible for extended periods.
* '''Aboriginal Song Lines''' — Navigation routes across Australia encoded in songs describing the landscape — the stars and terrestrial features as an integrated navigational and cosmological system.
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