The Zodiac????????????

Question

Can anyone tell me the origin of the Zodiac and what is it.?

Answer 1

The word Zodiac comes form the Greeek word Zoidiakos Kyklos meaning wheel of animals. It is based on the band of constellations and is used to locate planetary motions.
Many believe that there are only twelve but in fact there are 13 zodiac signs coming fom the thirty four constellations. Like Adromeda, Canis major and minor, Cassiopeia Cepheus and Cetus, just to name a few.
Its origin is called Denderah / Dendera because it came from the Temple of Denderah which is 37 miles off of Luxor in the villiage of Iunet, in Anciet Egypt once Kemet.

Answer 2

The three major stages in the development of the zodiac were: (1) the establishment of 12 unequal constellations along the ecliptic, (2) the division of the ecliptic into 12 equal segments based on the 12 constellations, and (3) the division of the 12 equal segments into 12 equal tropical signs.

The zodiac we have inherited is from the Greeks. There is no solid evidence that the Greeks possessed a complete zodiac until the 5th-century BCE. (We know the Greek zodiac was formalised by the latter half of the 5th-century BCE because the two Greek astronomers Meton and Euctemon both used it in their parapegmata (i.e., star calendars based on a division of the year into zodiacal signs). Its purpose lay with the establishment of the solar calendar.) The evidence is clear that the Greek introduction of such was that of a scheme borrowed from the Babylonians - excepting Aries and Libra.

Answer 3

in the early days around the time of Gen. Had you looked up into the sky at night, what you would have seen was the zodiac in place as you do on a chart. or so I have been told. I am old but not that old so I never saw it. It's in the stars.

Answer 4

zo·di·ac [zṓdee àk]
(plural zo·di·acs)
n
1. astrologically significant part of sky: a narrow band in the sky in which the movements of the major planets, Sun, and Moon take place, astrologically divided into twelve sections named for the major constellations
2. astrologer's chart: a chart linking twelve constellations to twelve divisions of the year, used as the astrologer's main tool for analyzing character and predicting the future
3. recurring set: a set of things or a sequence of events that repeats itself cyclically (literary)


[14th century. Via French and Latin < Greek zōidiakos kuklos "circle of animal figures" < zōidion "small animal" < zōion (see -zoon)]
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Answer 5

It's mentioned in the Bible. It's quite old. It's astrology connected

douay version

2Ki 23:5 And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of heaven.

Answer 6

Astrology is mentioned in the Bible but it is a practice that is not approved of by God and Christians do well to avoid it. What Scriptures can we go to for proof?
Here are some:
Isaiah 47:13-14: "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it."
Jeremiah 10:2-3__"Thus says the LORD: " Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven,
For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. For the customs of the peoples are futile--"
Deuteronomy 18:10--"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch."
Jeremiah 14:14--"Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart."
What is divination? The Encyclopædia Britannica notes that astrology is a “type of divination that consists in forecasting earthly and human events by means of observing and interpreting the fixed stars, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets.” All forms of divination—whether based on the stars or other objects—violate God’s guidelines.
Astrology is both unreliable and misleading. It could cause us to blame the stars rather than ourselves when we make mistakes. Above all, it is clearly condemned in God’s Word.

Answer 7

Same as with religions. The origin is the need to find an answer to the questions we are never going to find an answer to, like life, death, fate, future, and the like. In a nutshell, it's our incapacity to deal with the real world as adults.

Answer 8

Yeah, some hack made it up to bilk people out of money, and so many people bought it that to this day, losers still believe in it.

Answer 9

God made the planets and our personalities are determined by when we are born and where

Answer 10

well, I actually {myself} believe it's chinese, I know there is a chinese 1 too, but its my opionion...x