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- 1996) in his 1974 cantata "Signs of the Zodiac." ==References== * nasledstvo Literaturnoe nasledstvo 97: Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev. ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Image:Orionid, Milky Way, Zodiac light, Venus.jpg|A green and red Orionid meteor striking the sky below [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_way ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- as pig), is one of the twelve animals of the zodiac. The wild boar and a boar's head are common charges in heraldry. It represents what are ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- confined their motion to the circle of the zodiac, but comets could appear ... other planets do not appear outside the zodiac, he saw no reason why a planet ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- An amulet (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Natural History Pliny) is "an object that protects a person from trouble." Amulets ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- Category:Public [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- of the twelve celestial animals in the Chinese Zodiac for the Chinese calendar. It is interesting to note that the Vietnamese lunar new year replaced ...28 KB (4,391 words) - 16:17, 7 December 2022
- example, in Percy Greg's 1880 book Across the Zodiac, "astronaut" referred to a spacecraft. In Les Navigateurs de l'Infini (1925 ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- Next Marduk creates the Zodiac, heavenly bodies, and the god of the Sun. From the remains of Tiamat's body, "He skimmed spume from ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- katuns (see Maya Calendar), as well as a Maya zodiac, and is thus, in both respects, akin to the Books of Chilam Balam. The codex first appears in 1832 ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- ("precessing") through the zodiac, and that the rate of precession ... speculated that only the stars near the zodiac were affected), and concluded ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- twelve handmaidens and associated signs of the zodiac. Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 110218911 ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 07:03, 15 April 2024
- which became one of the signs of the zodiac. In Sumerian astronomy he represented the planet Mercury, known for its ability to shift rapidly ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- to date from the age of Sargon of Akkad. The zodiac was a Babylonian invention of great antiquity; and eclipses of the sun and moon could be foretold ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- inferior conjunctions of Venus against the Zodiac. ==See also== * Polygon * Star of David * Symbol ==Notes== ==References== * Grünbaum, B. "Polyhedra ...20 KB (3,104 words) - 07:21, 23 November 2022
- Phaenon, Phaethon, Pyroeis, Stilbon, those of the Zodiac and those three acknowledged before). From Pallas and Styx (another Okeanid) came Zelos (Zeal ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man. One-half minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:253 Mathilde small.jpg|thumb|250px|right|253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. This image was taken by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 05:10, 18 August 2023
- each planet's motion through the zodiac. Most historians of astronomy consider that this two epicycle model reflects elements of pre-Ptolemaic ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- *In Astrology, Cancer is the 4th astrological sign of the Zodiac. *In Tetris, every shape in the game is formed of 4 blocks each. Also the game ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
