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From experience, the books with constellational Greek myths are far and few.
Celestial Ramblings (copy) ____Maggie 2006
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From experience, the books with constellational Greek myths are far and few.
Archive 2006-05-01 ____Maggie 2006
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In Egypt, on the other hand, considerable technical skill was attained and a constellational system of obscure derivation, came in use.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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If the superstition that an eclipse is caused by an invisible dragon swallowing the sun or moon had really been the origin of the constellational dragons, they would certainly have all been put in the zodiac, the only region of the sky where sun or moon can be found; not outside it, where neither can ever come, and in consequence where no eclipse can take place.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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But the constellational picture story is the only one of all these narratives that we can date.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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In all these passages it is only in an indirect and secondary sense that we can see any constellational references in the various descriptions of
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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The gallery's north wall is plastered with 11-inch by 17-inch photocopies (166 of them by my count) that read like a vast constellational charting of inspirations and influences.
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