Prayer to the Gods of Night: The Near-Eastern Roots of Astrology
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The Odds of the Stars and Planets
The Enuma Anu Enlil is also our earliest record of anyone realizing that certain stellar phenomena are periodic. As well as the first recorded attempts to provide mathematical models for predicting such occurrences. By, say, the year 700 BCE, speaking very roughly, the Babylonians had an intricately developed system of omens regarding the stars and planets.
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