Ancient Meteor Folklore Across Cultures

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Across cultures separated by oceans and millennia, the same phenomena kept appearing in the sky, and people tried to make sense of what they were witnessing. In Central Asian traditions, meteors weren't just lights. They were fire serpents, sometimes harbingers of disaster, sometimes omens of wealth. In the Andaman Islands, they became torches carried by malevolent forest spirits hunting for human prey. These aren't random superstitions. They're attempts to interpret real celestial events that left deep impressions on human memory. The question worth asking is this: what were they actually seeing, and how often were these events occurring to become so deeply embedded in folklore? When you start cataloging these stories globally, patterns emerge that suggest something more than imagination at work.