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The objective of the article is to observe how the description of the starry sky has developed by looking at the sky map as a mental composition, a symbolic system that enables orientation in the sky on the basis of a specific integral narrative. The article observes the different ways in which such narratives have emerged and the astromythological essence of these stories. The author attempts to evaluate the nature and development of the different layers of constellations in folk astronomy