Signs and Constellations

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At 01:41 PM 12/17/02 -0000, Ed K wrote:

 

>As for sidereal whole signs, that too is a bit presumptuous. No

>constellation was ever considered to be exactly 1/12th of the

>complete circle of the sky until the Greeks forced the issue for

>mathematical purposes.

 

Not quite, Ed. When the Greeks inherited Mesopotamian astrology, the equal

sidereal signs of 30 degrees each already existed, presumably to make

measuring planetary positions easier. These were named for the 12

constellations.

 

Now there is another point about which we can only guess or theorize. There

is little evidence pro or con that higher civilizations existed long before

the era of recorded history. According to Edgar Cayce, astrology was

already in existence around 10,500 B.C. in Egypt and the '12 houses' were

part of Temple study. We don't KNOW for sure exactly what went on that far

back in time, so we have to go on what scholars have discovered, and that

is that a 12 sign SIDEREAL zodiac existed in later Mesopotamia. The

sidereal zodiac was she first zodiac as we know it. Even Robert hand admits

that. There's a big knowledge gap between a few centuries BCE and the

period around 10,500 BCE. A void actually.

 

Around the time that the two zodiacs exactly corresponded, no one knew

exactly what zodiac they were using, but eventually the Tropical/Sidereal

split happened between India and the west.

 

Terese