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Episode 3: When the Moon Disappears

Mar 28, 2021
42:28
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
The Three Great Gods of Mesopotamia
02:41 • 3min
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3
The Three Gods of the Babylonian Pantheon
05:14 • 3min
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4
The Origin of Cuneiform Astrology
07:57 • 3min
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5
The Origins of Astrology in Ancient Babylonia
10:45 • 3min
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6
Personal Astrology in the Middle Ages
14:04 • 4min
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7
The Month Between New Moon and New Moon
18:24 • 3min
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8
Moon and Moon on the 14th and 15th of Duzu
20:56 • 2min
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9
The Babylonian Lunar Eclipse
23:21 • 3min
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10
Ira Amiti's Death
25:58 • 3min
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11
Why Do Lunar Eclipses Happen Not Every Month?
29:16 • 4min
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12
The Moon's Oscillation Wobbles Slowly Over Time
32:58 • 58sec
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13
The Anuma Anu an-Lil - The Largest Set of Odds
33:57 • 4min
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14
The Invisible Eclipses
38:13 • 4min
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We look at how the Babylonians associated the heavens with their gods and how Mesopotamian astrology developed after the Assyrian conquest. We hear some examples of astrological omens and see how Babylonians handled the most malevolent of omens, the lunar eclipse.

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