please explain what you can too ..how Hindu astrology is? and how different "Vedic" astrology" is and what about China? how they got such a strange symbolism compared to western astrology? (As their animals dont really fit the descriptions of the signs in western astrology really do they?)
thansk for your answers!When and where were the horoscope symbols assigned for each of the zodiac signs in western astrology?
The Ancient Greeks divided the whole of the visible sky into constellations probably during the time of Eudoxus (390-340 BC), However, the twelve signs of the zodiac were introduced from Mesopotamia long before then.
The Mesopotamian arrangement of constellations has survived to the present day because it became the basis of a numerical reference scheme鈥攖he ecliptic, or zodiacal, system. This occurred about 450 BC, when the ecliptic was clearly recognized and divided into 12 equal signs of the zodiac.
In various Middle Eastern languages there also exist many texts dealing with celestial omens, though their sources and the question as to whether they are directly descended from a Mesopotamian tradition or are derived from Greek or Indian intermediaries is yet to be investigated.
The transmission of Mesopotamian omen literature to India, apparently took place in the 5th century BC during the Achaemenid occupation of the Indus valley. The first traces are found in Buddhist texts of this period, and Buddhist missionaries were instrumental in carrying this material to Central Asia, China, Tibet, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
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