
Episode 2: The Stars over Babylon
The Song of Urania
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The Ancient Babylonians Created Constellations
We have to imagine that the forebears of the ancient Babylonians had created constellations and associated myths with those constellations. And we can actually find some circumstantial evidence for constellations going quite far back, possibly as far as 20 or 30,000 years in the past. The further we go back, the sketchier the evidence gets. But we will start a little bit later than that, some time after writing had been developed in Mesopotamia. This inscription describes King Gudea's inspiration for building the temple.
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