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| | The Solar Zodiac — Archaeoastronomy Archive |
 | | Although our knowledge of that country’s astronomy is as yet limited it is certain that the Akkadian names of the months were intimately connected with the divisions of this great circle; the calendar probably being taken from the stars about 2000 BC, according to Professor Archibald Henry Sayce, of Oxford. |
 | | Thence it passed to the Jews through Assyria and Aramaea, as the identity of its titles in those countries indicates; and the eleven, or twelve, signs for a time became with that people objects of idolatrous worship, as is evident from their history detailed in the 2d Book of the Kings, xxiii, 5. |
 | | In the Babylonian Creation Legend, or Epic of Creation, discovered by George Smith in 1872,[2] the signs were Mizrata,-a very similar word appears for the Milky Way,- generally supposed to be the original of the biblical Mazzaroth; Mazzaloth being the form used in the Targums and later Hebrew writings. |
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