Ancient calendars and constellations

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The collected essays examine how ancient cultures constructed luni‑solar calendars and assigned the months to zodiacal constellations, focusing on Mesopotamian (Accadian/Babylonian) systems and comparing Median, Indian, and Chinese practices. The author argues that shifting celestial coordinates from precession explain why certain months and constellations were originally aligned, and she reconstructs ancient skies with a precessional globe illustrated by plates. Close readings of myths are offered as potentially astronomical rather than purely solar metaphors, and the work encourages combining textual and astronomical analysis to refine chronological and mythological interpretations.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE I.	To face page	13
PLATE II.	„	36
PLATE III.	„	40
PLATE IV.	„	64
PLATE V.	„	70
PLATE VI.	„	74
PLATE VII.	„	79
PLATE VIII.	„	80
PLATE IX.	„	118
PLATE X.	„	121
PLATE XI.	„	124
PLATE XII.	„	142
PLATE XIII.	„	174
PLATE XIV.	„	198
THE DIDÛ DRESSED	Page	219
PORTION OF CEILING AT BYBÂN EL MOLOUK	To face page	233
BULL APIS	Page	233
OUTLINES OF TWO CARVED SLATES DRAWN FROM PLATES I. AND III. IN The Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology FOR MAY 1900	„	237
THE CONSTELLATION PEGASUS	„	250
PLATE XV.	At End
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