history.

unprecedentedScientificinadvances
human on the
the summer
rises and
SunAmerican winter
our lives and understanding
knowledge—though
have enriched Native
solstices), the medicine
but have also in some
immeasurably, America,
wheels the pyramids of
and theof North
from
respectsthe awe with which
detracted ancient ziggurats
Egypt of
regarded
our forebears the natural world. Mesopotamia
Mesoamerica also
and attest to
Especially mys- terious to veneration
a widespread of the
the life-giving, yet also Historians believe that the
of thewere
them brightly
the burning
celestial Sun; celestial
of Western bodies.
astrology are
destructive,
magical powers
ability of its roots
Mesopotamia—the Near
the Moon,
apparently
bodies: embedded in
the
nocturnal to regulate
counterpart, the comprising
Eastern region the land
the
ebb oceanic
and flow tides;
of and(as the Tigris
between andthe Euphrates,
rivers which
these
regular two luminaries
cycles of successively
was ruled by the
constellations),
well as those of which
the Sumerians, Babyloni- ans
determine
helped humansthe to
and day, months
measurement of and
time—years. and Assyrians.
subsequent Elementsand
civilization, of
In fact, the reg- ular the
the
yet Babylonians
preced-
although ing absorbed
culture’s
night
their corresponding sacred concepts, it is they
movements of the heavenly many
beliefsSumerian
believed were adopted
to have by
formalized
influence over the pas- who are generally
bodies, each
of and
In trying the first astro-confusion
logical as
sage thetoseasons,
comprehendhave there is some
stood as precepts.
thetheluminaries
rolemanyof in governing credit
to (Itthe
for the
whether should be of
evolution
long
on been
Earth, under- ancient expertise should be given
natural life noted
this that
astrological
related
supernatural
cultures to one properties
ascribed another. to or the Chaldeans.
to the Babylonians Chaldea
Moon,
the Sun andand later also to the Babylonia,
was a region and ofthealthough
two
stars:
planets the subsequent
and planetary and interchangeable,
terms havethat become
solar, lunar,
personification of the to believe
there is reason the Chaldean
deities
stellar was anas
bodies entirely priests of Baal,
astrologers, as were
Star-worship (also termed astrologers. Even the Bible
logical
Sabaism) progression.
was practiced in especially
astrological renowned
prowess of the
astrolatry or refers to the
roofby most of
differing degrees the world’s early during the
Chaldeans, and classical period
civilizations, all astrologers
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epended upon agri-
ulture fordeity,
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elieved
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forwas
e, who traverse
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uch megalithic structures
his solar boat. venerated
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the of
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northern
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ith
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