/> “Beyond marking the seasons,the chief is that actuated the Babylonian astronomer in his observations were astrological.After quoting Diodorus to the effect that the Babylonian priests observed the position of certain stars in order to cast horoscopes,Thompson tells us that from a very early day the very name Chaldean became synonymous with magi.He adds that\"from Mesopotamia,by way of Greed Rome,a certain amount of Babylonian astrology made its way among the nations of the west,and it is quite probable that many superstitions which we only record as the peculiar product of western civilization took their in from th
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