Western Zodiac

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The twelve signs of the Western zodiac — Aries to Pisces — are older than Greece: Babylonian astronomers divided the ecliptic into twelve equal portions and named them after the creatures they saw in the stars, the same system that the Greeks inherited, named in their own myths, and passed to Rome, to the Arab world, and to the horoscopes cast today. The beast-calendar that became the horoscope. — Babylonian / Hellenistic astronomy