Chase the dog star over the sea

[sovay]

He walked, and sailed, under an arching web of stars moving slowly east to west from their rising to their setting points, and knew them so well—more than 100 of them by name, and their associated stars by colour, light and habit—that he seemed to hold a whole cosmos in his head, with himself, determined, stocky and unassuming, at the nub of the celestial action.

His memory for a blessing and a compass: Mau Piailug, who steered by the stars.

Comments

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful.