358 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
Now, the question was, what Egyptian gods referred tothe7 
planets, and by what deities the Signs of the Zodiac and its. 
smaller parts were represented. As to the planetary deities 
of the Greeks and Romans, their names are known and still 
used in all modern languages. The names of the Roman 12 — 
Great Gods and their — Signs of the Zodiac, are spe- 
cified in the so-called Calendaria Rustica and other ancient 
authors. Comparing the names of the planetary gods with 
those of the Zodiacal gods, we find, as Lucianus already men 
tions, that some of the 12 Great "Gods were called by the 
names of some Cabiri*. Thus, e. g., both the second plan- 
et and the fourth Sign of the Zodiac were called Mercurius; — 
of which ambiguity the reason was this: The Zodiac, the 
penne belt within the limits of which the sun, era 
ets perform their revolutions, was divided, according to 
the 12 — into 12 equal parts of 30 degrees, and ¢ of 
ytre in seieatalss ths th - deities, b 
on their eir heads ; rynonymose by m 
I a, the he astronomical si ification of the the 
deities, both 
