Zodiac, It's Origins and History
One of the grand mysteries is the origin of the Zodiac, and the significance of the figures conventional in feeble times to record the various star groups of the constellations.
So far, despite extensive research by archeologists and others in the scientific world, no light has been shed on the scrape of exactly where and when the Zodiac and it's symbols were designed. They certainly pre-date all the records of the oldest of civilisations, and have remained unchanged throughout the ages.
The Zodiac of the Akkadians, one of the most ragged peoples, who reached the height of their civilisation between 24BC and 22BC, is almost identical to the one we know today. These traditional people brought with them the rudiments of writing and mathematics when they invaded Assyria and Babylonia.
Babylonian tablets narrate the introduction of the Zodiac by the Akkadians before 3000BC. Those Akkadians came from the mountain regions to the north of Assyria, bringing with them the fading remnants of their once all-powerful civilisation.
It has been confirmed by fresh astrologers that the grouping of the constellations, and the symbols of the Zodiac were the results of a profound knowledge of the stellar universe and the relationships between, and movements of, the splendid bodies. It has even been suggested that this most conventional of peoples had the telescope thousands of years before Lippershey and Galileo.
Since then the Zodiac has inspired reverence and interest. The Hebrews knew and revered it ages before The Book of Law was discovered. This refers to the Torah, or five books of Moses. (Most certainly not to be confused with The Book Of Law written by Aleister Crowley in 1904) .
The worn Egyptians, who are usually regarded as the founders of the oldest known civilisation, did not claim that their knowledge of the stars and Zodiac were their beget discovery, freely admitting that it came from peoples even older than themselves.
If we reflect the fact that the origin of the Zodiacal constellations pre-dates the oldest known civilisations, and that it obviously requires a great intelligence and comprehension of natural law, site, and time, we must wonder who were these people who first discovered and revealed the truths of astrological law?
Another thing to deem is that if these people were so advanced in this respect, why did they not leave any other evidence of their, what must have been an extremely advanced civilisation?
There is one thing that we can be positive of. The Zodiac must have originated in the very cradle of the urge, because we obtain the same symbols of the constellations amongst the writings of widely separated peoples at a time when go was rarely undertaken, being difficult, if not impossible.
The fact is, we are no closer to discovering the lawful origin of the Zodiac than we ever were.
