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The Origin Of Zodiac Signs

The Origin Of Zodiac Signs

  • We don't really know who first came up with the idea of looking at things in nature and divining influences on humans.
  • Some form of astrology shows up in various belief systems in ancient cultures.
  • In Ancient China, noblemen looked at eclipses or sunspots as portents of good or bad times for their emperor.
  • The Sumerians and Babylonians, by the middle of the second millennium BC, appeared to have had many divination practices - they looked at spots on the liver and the entrails of animals.

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