Editing Cosmos (section)

=== Australian view ===
{{see also|Australian Aboriginal astronomy}}
Australian cosmology has a vast and varied history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cosmology-australian-indigenous-cosmology|title=Cosmology: Australian Indigenous Cosmology &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2020-09-13|archive-date=2021-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413221508/https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cosmology-australian-indigenous-cosmology|url-status=live}}</ref>

Australian cosmology beliefs were based around the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's ideas, also known as Indigenous astronomy, and it was around before the Babylonians, Greeks, and the Renaissance period. They found ways to observe the Moon, stars, and the Sun, this enabled them to create a sense of time. This also allowed them to navigate across the continent, create calendars, and predict the weather. One of the most important constellations in Australia for the Aboriginal people is the Emu. The Emu constellation represents the connection between the earth and the sky, and stories and representations of their constellations were written on some cave walls in Australia. Another indigenous tribe known as the Euahlayi saw the [[Milky Way]] as a river and between the two bright sides represented a Galactic Bulge where the two sons of the creator Baiame and the river made a connection from the earth and the sky. The [[Yolŋu|Yolngu]] people were one of the first to discover how the tide of the ocean works. They discovered the tide had a direct correlation with the Moon. Their reasoning as to why the ocean did not fill up as much as perhaps when the Moon was full versus a crescent moon is because the Moon was not as full either. This contradicts the father of science, Galileo, who said that the tides correlated with the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Multiple indigenous tribes described winter by the [[Pleiades|Seven Sisters]], a group of stars in the sky that provided hunter-gatherers a sort of calendar to indicate whether they should be hunting or gathering, based on the season.