Mesopotamian Astrology: An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial DivinationThis book is intended to serve as a general introduction to Mesopotamian astrology, both its outward phenomena and its inner structure. |
Contents
Chapter 2 | 32 |
Chapter 3 | 54 |
Chapter 4 | 74 |
THE WORKING PRINCIPLES | 97 |
Chapter 6 | 137 |
Chapter 7 | 152 |
Chapter 8 | 162 |
Reports Written on March 15th 669 B C | 180 |
The Great Star List | 187 |
List of Babylonian Star Names | 207 |
List of Abbreviations | 220 |
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a-na according ACh Ishtar ACh Suppl Adad ahû Akkad Akkadian Akkullanu Amurru an-e apodoses Assurbanipal Assyrian astrological omens astrological texts astronomical Babylon Babylonian astrology Babylonian scholars Balasî Borsippa celestial commentary constellations diš ditto divination divinatory dmin EAE tablet earth Elam Enlil Enūma Enuma Anu Enlil Esarhaddon evil omen exorcist extispicy full moon gods halo heaven Hellenistic astrology hemerologies Hittite horoscopes Hunger and Pingree interpretation Iqqur Ištar Ištar-šum-ereš Jupiter king land letters and reports lord lunar eclipse Marduk Mars mentioned Mercury Mesopotamian month moon is surrounded mukallimtu Mul.apin Nabû-ahhe-eriba namburbû Nineveh Ninurta Nisan Old Babylonian omens pertaining omina Oppenheim Parpola phenomena planets Pleiades portending protases quoted references Reiner ritual Rochberg-Halton 1988 Sachs Sargon Saturn scribes Shamash Simanu Sîn ina tāmartīšu solar eclipse Star List Subartu Šumma Sîn ina tradition Uruk Venus Weidner zodiacal zodiacal signs