Year of the seasons shorter than the zodiacal year.
Those zodiacal signs are of immense antiquity and world-wide universality.
Moreover, both of these stars are zodiacal stars and Mars frequently passes through the constellations to which they belong.
It lies in the path of our sun, moon and planets, and so is one of the zodiacal constellations.
Pisces, The Fishes, the constellation just south of Andromeda and Pegasus, is the first of the twelvezodiacal constellations.
Not only the sun but the moon and planets as well move through the zodiacal constellations.
To the north and east of Capricornus we find Aquarius, which is also a zodiacal constellation.
There is nothing remarkable about either of these groups, except that Aries is one of the twelve zodiacal constellations.
Both Scorpio and Libra are numbered among the twelve zodiacal constellations--that is, they lie along the ecliptic, or apparent yearly path of the sun among the stars.
The zodiacal constellations lie nearly overhead within the tropics and can be seen to advantage all over the world except in polar regions.
The constellations that lie within this belt of the zodiac are called zodiacal constellations.
Goldziher,[57] but even his scholarship has failed to convince sympathetic readers that Abraham and Isaac are sun-myths, and that the twelve sons of Jacob are the zodiacal signs!
Combination of the Zodiacal and Cometical Systems.
There was a remarkable comet in 1843, the tail of which was at first confounded with what is called the zodiacal light.
We have also seen that astronomers regard the zodiacallight as a residuum of matter enveloping the sun, and which was probably at one time denser than it is now.
Researches on the zodiacallight have acquired a new degree of interest since geometricians have taught us that we are ignorant of the real causes of this phenomenon.
I am rather inclined to think that the variations of the zodiacal light are not all appearances dependent on certain modifications in the state of our atmosphere.
The illustrious author of "La Mecanique Celeste" has shown that the solar atmosphere cannot reach even the planet Mercury; and that it could not in any case display the lenticular form which has been attributed to the zodiacal light.
During my stay in the valleys of the Tuy and Aragua the zodiacal light appeared almost every night with extraordinary brilliancy.
Cassini admitted "that the zodiacal light was feebler in certain years, and then returned to its former brilliancy.
The Milky Way appeared to grow pale compared with the brilliancy of the zodiacal light; and if small, bluish, scattered clouds were accumulated toward the west, it seemed as if the moon were about to rise.
During these variations of the zodiacal light, the hygrometer indicated considerable dryness.
In other years I saw the zodiacallight augment in the southern hemisphere half an hour before its disappearance.
Sometimes, during nights equally clear, I sought in vain for the zodiacal light, when, on the previous night, it had appeared with the greatest brilliancy.
La Caille, in his voyage to Rio Janeiro and the Cape, was struck with the beautiful appearance displayed by the zodiacal light within the tropics, not so much on account of its less inclined position, as of the greater transparency of the air.
But this excellent observer does not mention those changes of intensity in the zodiacal light which I have several times remarked within the tropics, in the space of a few minutes.
These are known respectively as the Zodiacal Light and the Gegenschein.
The Zodiacal Light is a faint cone-shaped illumination which is seen to extend upwards from the western horizon after evening twilight has ended, and from the eastern horizon before morning twilight has begun.
It is usually treated of in connection with the zodiacal light, and one theory regards it similarly as of meteoric origin.
Zodiacal signs surrounding the heavens as towers gird a city; and applied also to the 28 lunar Mansions.
The Epic was composed by a certain Sin-liqi-unnini in twelve books, and was arranged on an astronomical principle, the subject of each book corresponding with the name of a Zodiacal sign.
The path of the sun through the signs of the Zodiac had already been mapped out: in fact the Zodiacal Signs owe their origin to the astronomers of Babylonia.
Some of them came to symbolize the powers of darkness, others were transported to the skies, certain of the allies of Tiamat being the Zodiacal animals, while out of the skin of Tiamat Merodach constructed the heaven itself.
A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.
Zodiacal light seen every night in the 'Akabah Gulf: not outside it.
But there are some reasons for believing that we do actually see it, and that it is no other than that mysterious appearance long known under the name of the zodiacal light.
Such figures, with the zodiacal symbols arranged around a figure of Christ, may be seen in certain MSS.
Cancer in the mediaeval zodiacal medical figures, as in Plate XV of this essay.
During the time of spring the luminary of the physical world rises far to the north of the equinoctial; in summer it dawns midway and in winter it appears in the most southerly point of its zodiacal journey.
The significance is the reality of prophethood which is symbolized by the sun, and the holy Manifestations are the dawning-places or zodiacal points.
Each month between it appears from a certain zodiacal position.
The Zodiacal sharp who runs things during January is Aquarius, which being translated means "water-wagon.
This notion of compound Souls cannot be explained at all without a prior knowledge of the astrological relation between the Chinese Zodiacal Signs and the Ten Celestial Stems.
The zodiacal light shines from an hour or two after sunset till midnight, with singular brightness, almost equalling the milky way.
I looked in vain for the beautiful lancet beam of the zodiacal light; its position was obscured by Chomiomo.
We may remark that the main part of the zodiacal light shifts to the south side of the celestial equator as we cross the line.
The design is reproduced with modifications on early Syrian cylinders, and the name of the zodiacal sign Aquarius shows to what an antiquity it must reach back.
The figure of the ninth of the zodiacal constellations, Sagittarius, is named in Troilus and Cressida (act v.
