decans

I, who reigned from 380 to 362 B.C., the shrine was inscribed with images and texts explaining the annual calender of 36 decades (ital decades) or ten-day periods defined by the appearance and disappearance of stars known as decans

Submerged Cities off the Coast of Egypt 2000

If we farther observe that the root of the word Elohim signifies strong or powerful, and that the Egyptians called their decans strong and powerful leaders, attributing to them the creation of the world, we shall presently perceive that the book of

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

In other words, he carries the division of the zodiac a step further, and divides each sign into three equal parts, the "decans" of the astrologers, each containing 10° (_deka_) of the ecliptic.

The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889

They therefore introduced the "decans," that is to say the idea of thirty-six divinities -- three to each month -- borrowed from the Egyptian division of the year into thirty-six weeks (of ten days), each under the rule of a separate god.

The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889

In astrology, the celestial circle was divided into 36 decans, or segments, corresponding in ancient Egypt to ten-day sequences of rising stars.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Or I could find something weird (or mundane) in my interests to connect with the Thirty True Aethyrs or the 36 Secret Tzaddikim or the 32 parts (10 sephiroth, 22 paths) of the Tree of Life, or the 36 decans for that nice GURPS Cabal feel.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

Dorotheus also em - phasizes the cardines and their lords, the decans, the

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Each sign is the house of a planet; and each is divided into various subdivisions (decans, fines, etc.) of which each is also ruled by a planet.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

But the principal purpose of these thirty-six decans, or ten-day groups of stars, was to tell the time by night.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

Fantastically complicated rules were devised for ascertaining the relative strengths and weaknesses of the planets and zodiacal signs; and new subdivisions of the signs — horās or halves, saptāṃśas or sevenths, and most importantly, navāṃśas or ninths — increased the dominions of the planets beyond the decans, the fines, and the twelfths.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968