So much that, you may decide to postpone your holiday or you may find that you and your new love interest are not compatible, because of his/her star sign.
We give a lot to signs, it has been said in many, many books and teachings of how humans where able to circumnavigate the globe with the aid of the stars.
The stars are ruled by the 12 signs of the zodiac, looking at the Oxford English dictionary, we understand zodiac to be...
zodiac
/zodiak/
• noun a belt of the heavens within about 8° of the ecliptic, including all apparent positions of the sun, moon, and planets and divided by astrologers into twelve equal divisions or signs.
— DERIVATIVES zodiacal /z
— ORIGIN Greek zoidiakos, from zoidion ‘sculptured animal figure’, from zoion ‘animal’.
1.When was this method of reading the stars created and by whom?
From the studies, we find a lot of information of the earliest zodiac signs, in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Sumeria. Sumeria being an older civilisation to the others, would be our oldest point of study. We need to also understand that each preceding empire or system added to or modified the templates for the zodiac.
From the Sumerians it was passed through the Chaldean's to the Egyptians in about 2000BC
Below are descriptions and names given to star signs and by the Sumerians
Name - Constellation - Sign
MUL.MUL Pleides - Stars-Stars
GUD.AN.NA - Pleides - Celestial bull
SIBA.ZI.AN.NA - Orion - Shepherd
SHU.GI - Perseus - Old man
GAM - Auriga - Broken Staff
MASH.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL - Gemini - Great Twins
AL.LUL - Cancer - The Crab
UR.GU.LA - Leo - Giant Dog
AB.SIN - Virgo Ear of Barley or Spica
ZI.BA.NI.TUM - Libra - Flower
GIR.TAB - Scorpio - Scorpion
PA.BIL.SAG - Sagittarius - Horse
SHUHUR.MASH - Capricorn - Sea Goat
GU.LA - Aquarius - Giant
ZIBATI SIM.MAH - Pisces - Swallow
A.NU.NI. - Pisces - Fish
LU.HUN.GA - Aries - Labourer
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