Re: VMs: "Zodiac" signs and Regulus

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 00:48 05/10/2004 -0700, you wrote:
> > Also, Rene, your work with paranatellonta in
> > connection with the "Zodiac" images appears quite
> > promising.  Have you run into any references to
> > Tauroctony or Mithraism in connection with the
> > paranatellonta?
>
> I can frankly say that I've never heard of the first
> and never seen the second in connection with
> astrology.

        http://www.skyscript.co.uk/gl/paran.html

        Paranatellonta are stars or star groups that fall upon angles at
        the same time that a significant constellation or planet is also
        upon the angles. They are viewed as attendants. In ancient
        astrology the term was also applied to the constellations
        that ascended with the zodiacal decans.

Also see pp.4-5 of:-
        http://digilander.libero.it/elam2/melammu/melammu2000panaino.pdf
...according to which, Teukros of Babylon's discussion of the 
"paranatellonta tois dechanois" was translated into Pahlavi, into Arabic, 
and then into Middle Persian in 542, before being used by Abu Ma'shar, and 
from there incorporated into Pietro d'Abano's "Sphaera Barbarica".

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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