Avatars of the Astrological Zodiac

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" The observation of the stars and their grouping into constellations is attested from 2400 BCE at Ebla (in what is today Syria): the rising of the constellation of the Pleiades coincided at that time with the vernal equinox. And around 2000 BCE, further to the west in Mari, the rising of Arcturus marked the beginning of the harvest. There existed an established, learned form of astrology from the beginning of the first Akkadian empire, founded by the Semite Sharrum-kin (2334-2279 BCE), known under the name of Sargon. His grandson, Naram-Sin (2254-2218 BCE), "He Who Is Beloved of Sin," i.e. of the moon god, was his inspired inheritor. These first recorded astronomical observations are also attested for the same period by the Neoplatonic Simplicius in Chapter XI of his Commentary on the Treatise on the Heavens by Aristotle. "

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