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of which bore the name of Tetlacmancalme- 
eac 
It is easy to conceive how the divisions of the 
zodiac^ and the names of the signs that pr’esided 
over the days, the half-lanations, and the years,' 
may have led men to the worship of animals. 
The nomade tribes reckon by lunations ; they 
distinguish the moon 'of the rabbits, that of the 
tigers, that of the goats, &c., according to . the 
different periods of the year in which the wild 
or tame animals afford them enjoyments, or 
inspire them with terror. When by degrees 
the measures of time become measures of space f, 
and nations form the dodecatemorion of the 
zodiac of the full moons ^ the names of the wild 
and tame animals are transferred to the con- 
stellations themselves. It is thus that the Tar- 
tar zodiac, which contains only real may 
be considered as the zodiac of the hunting and 
shepherd tribes. The tiger, unknown in Africa, 
gives it a character exclusively Asiatic. This 
animal is no longer found in the Chaldean, 
Egyptian, or Greek zodiac, in which the tiger, 
the hare, the horse, and the dog, are replaced 
by the lion of Africa, Thrace, and western Asia, 
Nierernberg, [list. Nat. Lib. viii, c. 22, p. 144. Tor® 
qaemada, iilj, II, c.. 58; lib. Vill, c. 18 (tom. 1. p. 194 j 
tom. 2, p. 291), 
f .See vol, xili, n. 370. 
von. xiv. 
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