The Egyptian Zodiac

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Hello Siderealists,

 

I've been doing research on the signs of the zodiac, and came across the

interesting note below today. It's from the Italian Sesti's THE GLORIOUS

CONSTELLATIONS. He has several pages of biographical references, but

doesn't reference each statement. Much of his material came from the

British Museum's massive Library along with more familiar books like

Allen's STAR NAMES.

 

As we've learned, Cyril Fagan was correct about horoscopic astrology's link

to Egypt, but wrong about the antiquity of astrology in Egypt. As far as I

know he didn't mention Egypt's debt to Babylonia in relation to the zodiac.

(Maybe he did, and I don't remember.)

 

From Sesti:

 

" The zodiac we use comes to us from Babylonia. (In the ancient world it

superseded the Egyptian one, which began, not with Aries or the divine

Lamb, but with the sacred Cat, and then went on to display a dozen animals

of the Nile region... " (p. 15)