The Origin of the Zodiac

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The latest board discussion on the zodiac has prompted me to review the

writings of early siderealists and scholars such as David Pingree. Fagan's

ASTROLOGICAL ORIGINS is full of crazy stuff, but still siderealists keep

repeating his basic assertions about the zodiac and the supposed role of

ancient Egypt in developing astrology.

 

Rupert Gleadow (THE ORIGIN OF THE ZODIAC) seems more objective and

scholarly in his writing, but it's been a long time since I've seen any

siderealist mention him. Gleadow was an Oxford scholar of classical Greek

and Egyptian hieroglyphics. A siderealist, Gleadow disagreed with Fagan on

some key points.

 

Does any siderealist want to refute anything in Rob Hand's 'The History of

Astrology - Another View?' http://www.robhand.com/histintr.htm

 

According to Hand (and academic scholars), " It was a later Egypt [not the

Egypt of the Pharaohs] that gave birth to horoscopic astrology, an Egypt

that had made close contact with the ideas of the Babylonians. "

 

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