A lot of ancients believed that the earth was the center of the universe, and that the sky was just a blanket or veil wrapped around it with the stars scattered across it, like fish caught in a net. They had no real concept that there were huge distances from one star to another, or that the stars were way far beyond the moon, etc. Some also believed that the veil was some sort of heavenly fabric meant to hide heaven (or Mt. Olympus or whatever) from our view.
Check out Sogbo and Sogbata, an African creation myth, where the sons of the sun built a ladder to reach the the heavens. Greek myths frequently identified constellations with mythological personages, memorials the gods created to honor favored humans. Egyptian myths say Nut or Nuit was goddess of the sky, eating the sun at sunset and giving birth to it again in the morning, that she was the wife of Geb, the earth, but was eternally seperated from him by Shu, the air that lay between.
That's all I can think of for now....
Check out Sogbo and Sogbata, an African creation myth, where the sons of the sun built a ladder to reach the the heavens. Greek myths frequently identified constellations with mythological personages, memorials the gods created to honor favored humans. Egyptian myths say Nut or Nuit was goddess of the sky, eating the sun at sunset and giving birth to it again in the morning, that she was the wife of Geb, the earth, but was eternally seperated from him by Shu, the air that lay between.
That's all I can think of for now....