Babylonian Sky Origin

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Long before the Greeks, Babylonian astronomers (in star-catalogues such as MUL.APIN) divided the ecliptic into the zodiac and named the figures along it — the Bull of Heaven, the Lion, the Scorpion, the Great Twins. The Greeks inherited these constellations and dressed them in their own myths; the sky we read is older than its Greek names. — Babylonian astronomy