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who plays on the vina, and of a young man^ 
who brandishes a club*.” 
The interior zodiac contains, like that of the 
Thibetans, the Chinese, and the Tartars, only 
animals, real In the Greek sphere, half 
the signs are formed of animals found in nature, 
the other half is composed of human figures, and 
fabulous or allegorical beings. The Balance, 
or is held sometimes by the claws, 
of the Scorpion'l-; at others by a male 
figure, as in the planisphere of Bianchini, and in 
the Indian zodiac ; and at others by the Virgin, 
who in this case assumes the name of Astrea. 
The signs of the lunar mansions, or the 
hieroglyphics of the days of the Mexican calen- 
dar, are represented both by animals and inani- 
mate objects. If we adopt the ingenious idea 
of Mr. Hager, according to which the sacred 
stone, brought by Michaux from the banks of 
the Tygris, is an ancient zodiac, we shall find, 
that, among the Chaldeans, the series of the real 
^(ahoL was also interrupted by altars, towers, and 
houses;}:. This last fact is favourable to the 
hypothesis, that the dodecatemorions owe their 
origin to the lunar mansions, or houses. The 
same stone appears to offer another analogy. In 
* Asiat. Res. vol. 2, page 335. 
t Manil.,lib. 1. vol. 609. 
I Illustrazione d"uno Zod. Orientale, cap. 8, p. 39, trav. 2, 
