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divided into two equal parts, which touched each other in the 

 points of the winter and summer solstices, as follows : The plan- 

 ets Satui-n, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, possessed each 

 two houses, one east, the other west of the winter solstice, as 

 here shown, the Sun and the Moon receiving only one sign each. 



crocodile an emblem of Saturn, the lion that of the Moon, &c., 

 selected the animals symbolizing our signs of the Zodiac ; for 

 Sagittarius belonged to the ducatus of Mars, Gemini character- 

 ized Venus genitrix, and so in all other cases. By the way, the 

 fact that the originator of the Zodiac put the winter solstice be- 

 tween Aquarius and Pisces, the houses of Saturn, etc., brings to 

 light the fact that our Zodiac must have been invented about that 

 time when the winter solstice lay between the houses of Saturn, 

 the constellations of Aquarius and Pisces. In consequence of the 

 precession of the fixed stars the vernal equinoctial point lies to- 

 day in the midst of the constellation Pisces, consequently about 73° 

 west of its original point ; therefore our Zodiac must have been 

 arranged about the year 5800 b.c. 



Concerning the names and emblems of the signs of the Zodiac 

 on the Turin papyrus, it is to be lamented that they are broken 

 off, except the first. Since this first part of the Zodiac is, on our 

 papyrus, expressed by the sparrow-hawk, the emblem of Venus 

 (PL I. 1. ii. 4), and since all nations commenced the Zodiac with 

 the vernal equinoctional point, it is evident that the figure of the 

 said sparrow-hawk represented the first sign of the Zodiac, the 

 house of Venus, Gemini, the first sign after the vernal equinoctial 

 point in 5800 B.C. 



Manetho's copiers and the Vetus Chronicon specify 8 Semidei 

 or Heroes after the 7 Cabiri, referring to the 12 signs of the Zo- 

 diac ; but their catalogues — " Ap-/]c:^ ''AvooSc(;, ^HepaxXv^^^ WtcoaXcdv, 

 \tfi/jLOJU, Ttdor^^, I'coaoi;, Zeu<; — are apparently incomplete, and 

 the orders of these deities differ in some instances. Tcdorjiz is 

 identified both with Tulis or Tutis and" Auou6i<;, besides he stands 



