A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . r^ •K-t? Mm H. CULTURAL INFLUENCE 311 piscium) was probably well beyond the Babylonianconstellation of the Ram. Working on this assumption, and assuming thirtydegrees to each of the three intervening constellations,Dr. Kugler has calculated the years in which the sunentered these signs of the zodiac at the vernal equinox,the points, that is to say, at which the astral World-Ages would have begun and ended. His figuresentirely dispose of Wincklers claim to an astronomicalbasis for his astral system. The Age of th
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . r^ •K-t? Mm H. CULTURAL INFLUENCE 311 piscium) was probably well beyond the Babylonianconstellation of the Ram. Working on this assumption, and assuming thirtydegrees to each of the three intervening constellations,Dr. Kugler has calculated the years in which the sunentered these signs of the zodiac at the vernal equinox,the points, that is to say, at which the astral World-Ages would have begun and ended. His figuresentirely dispose of Wincklers claim to an astronomicalbasis for his astral system. The Age of the Twins,instead of ending, according to the theory, at about2800 , really ended in the year 4383 Thus theAge of the Bull began over fifteen hundred years beforethe birth of Sargon I., who is supposed to haveinaugurated its beginning ; and it ended in 2232 —-that is, considerably before the birth of Hammurabi,under whom we are told the Bull Age motifs wereprincipally developed. Moreover, from the time of theFirst Dynasty onwards down to the year 81 —thatis to say, during t
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