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or, The Constellationsby Frances RollestonPhilologos Religious Online BooksPhilologos.orgMAZZAROTH;or, theCONSTELLATIONS."Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?" — Job xxxviii. 32FIRST PARTLondon:Rivingtons, Waterloo Place.1862CONTENTS OF THE FIRST PART. PrefaceQuestions to which it is generally believed that there is no certain Answer to begiven, Tradition or Conjecture being all that is ever allegedObjections sometimes urged as to the Origin and Meaning of the Names andFigures of the Ancient ConstellationsWhat are the real Meanings of the Emblems of the Signs?The Latin Names of the Twelve Signs accounted for by their Semitic RootsThe Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, as connected with the Primitive PropheciesMazzaroth. Chapter IMazzaroth. Chapter IISECOND PART

London:Rivingtons, Waterloo Place.1862CONTENTS OF THE SECOND PART Explanation of the TablesProphecies of the Messiah, His People and His enemy, corresponding with theThirty-six Decans or Constellations accompanying the SignsAuthorities for the Antiquity of the Signs of the Zodiac, their Names and FormsAries. The Ram, or Lamb, coming ForthTaurus. The Bull, coming to RuleGemini. The Twins, the UnitedCancer. The Crab or Scarabaeus, holding the PossessionLeo. The Lion, the SeparatingVirgo. The Woman, bearing the BranchLibra. The Scales, the RedeemingScorpio. The Scorpion, the ConflictSagittarius. The Archer, the Going ForthCapricornus. The Goat, the Atonement SlainAquarius. The Water-bearer, the Pouring ForthPisces. The Fishes, the Multitudes UpheldLunar Zodiac; or, Mansions of the MoonThe Galactic Circle. A Way ReturningThe Twelve Signs, Sanscrit and ChineseThe PleiadesUrsa Major and Minor, called the Great and Lesser BearOrionNames of the Antediluvian PatriarchsNote on Enoch; Notes on the Names of the Antediluvian Patriarchs; on BritishTriadsNames of the Sons of Jacob, according to their Birth. The Breastplate of the HighPriestGenesis 49Numbers 24: Part of the Prophecy of BalaamDeuteronomy 33: Blessing of MosesThe Encampment of Israel in the Wilderness, and the Breastplate of the HighPriestThe Twelve Signs as alluded to by Jacob in Genesis 49, and by Moses inDeuteronomy 33Types of the Levitical Law, corresponding with the Signs, or their accompanyingConstellationsOn the Cherubic Forms as connected with the Emblems of Ancient AstronomySymbols of the Constellations. The Twelve Signs

Types of the Apocalypse, corresponding with the Emblems of the ConstellationsProphecies of the Messiah, corresponding with the Twelve Signs of the Zodiacand the Twelve Precious Stones of the Foundations of the Holy City of theApocalypse, Rev 21On the Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures, as connected with the Names ofAncient AstronomyOn the Immortality of the Soul as known to the Antediluvian Patriarchs, and tothe Ancient Hebrews, and indicated by the Emblems of Ancient AstronomyOn the Book of Job, as connected with the Emblems of Ancient AstronomyProphecy, as connected with the Emblems of Ancient Astronomy, for which aProphetic Import is claimedOn the Original Language to which the Names of Ancient Astronomy are referredOn the Connexion of the Greek with the Semitic DialectsThe Names of the Twelve Chief Gods of Roman and Greek Mythology, explainedfrom their Primitive Roots, and referred to the corresponding SignsThe Twelve Labours of Hercules, as agreeing with the SignsThe Sphinx, as connected with the Sign VirgoThe Sibyl, as connected with the Sign VirgoOn the Sign VirgoAncient Arabian and Persian TraditionsThe Star of BethlehemThe Southern Fish, in AquariusThe Hebrew Alphabet, as connected with the ConstellationsOn the Antiquity of the Square Character of the HebrewMeanings of the Hebrew Alphabet, from Ancient Jewish Authorities. (Gaffarelli,Cur. Lit.)The Southern CrossAncient Names of the Sun, Moon, and Earth, explained from their PrimitiveRootsAncient Names of the Planets, explained from their Primitive RootsNames of Egyptian Gods, explained from their Primitive Roots, and referred tothe corresponding Planets and Signs. The Eight Gods of the First OrderThe Twelve Great Gods of Assyria. Presided over by Ashur, the King of theCircle of the Great GodsNames of the Stones on the Foundations of the Holy City, in the order in whichthey are given in Revelation 21:19, 20, referred to the Hebrew RootsOn the Sign CapricornOn the Sign AriesTHIRD PART

London:Rivingtons, Waterloo Place.1862CONTENTS OF THE THIRD PART Days of the Planetary Week, as named after the Sun, Moon, and Five PlanetsMemorial Lines for the Planetary Week, as connected with ProphecyNames of the Days of the Planetary Week of the Brahmins, as given by Le GentilSingalese Names of the Days of the Planetary Week, as given by Le GentilSiamese Names of the Planetary Week, according to La LoubereMemorial Lines for the Days of the Week, in analogy with those of CreationMemorial Lines, according to the Order of the SignsMemorial Lines, according to the Course of ProphecyMemorial Lines for the ConstellationsDecansMemorial Lines for the Names of StarsNote on the Names of the StarsOn the Mansions of the Moon, or Lunar ZodiacMemorial Lines for the Mansions of the MoonThe Mythology of India, in connexion with Ancient AstronomyThe Mythology of the Scandinavian Nations, as connected with the AncientAstronomyNote on HelaNote on NoeticMemorial Lines for the Names of the Mythology of IndiaMemorial Lines for the Names of the Mythology of Scandinavia, with NotesMemorial Lines for the Names of the PlanetsNotes, &c., on the Names of the PlanetsFOURTH PARTLondon:Rivingtons, Waterloo Place.1865CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH PART Preface to Part IVOn the Emblems of Egyptian Mythology

Testimonies to the Great Antiquity Here Claimed for the Emblems of theConstellations, Egyptian and ChaldeanOn the Astronomy of the AncientsNote on the Astronomy of the AncientsAstrology of the AncientsNote on the DecansSpecial thanks to Moza, a research member of Philologos and BibleProphecy Research, for her help in providing this electronic copy.THIS BOOK HAS BEEN EDITED. Any corrections or questions maybe directed to the following address: research-bpr@philologos.orgMazzaroth; or, the Constellations by FrancesRolleston, 1862Philologos Edition: Nov0901". freely ye have received, freely give." (Mat 10:8)Philologos Bible Prophecy Research The BPR Reference Guide Jewish Calendar About Usor, The Constellationsby Frances RollestonPhilologos Religious Online BooksPhilologos.orgPrevious Contents NextMAZZAROTH*;orTHE CONSTELLATIONS."Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?" — Job xxxviii. 32.FIRST PART.PREFACE.

Most persons have been taught the names and figures of the signs of the zodiac. Manyhave been repelled by the explanations usually given of these and the otherconstellations; other have considered them not only useless, but burdensome to theastronomer; and it has been proposed to substitute a kind of survey of the heavens, wherelines and angles should take the place of traditional figures. Should this alteration beadopted, the message these figures were intended to transmit will not be less impressivewhen the types in which it was conveyed are no longer made subservient to the purposesof practical astronomy; especially as through being thus used the forms of the emblemsare already disguised and modernized, and new figures, the most incongruous and absurd,have been intruded among them, while the names of the stars are becoming continuallymore corrupted.* Mazzaroth, though sometimes in modern lexicons differently interpreted, is here usedas meaning the constellations. In Job xxxviii. 32, it stands in the text of the English Bibleuntranslated: in the margin it is rendered "the twelve signs." Mazzaroth is a feminine orneuter plural noun, applied to separate chambers of divisions, such as the constellations.Mazaloth, a word with which it is sometimes identified, means a way through which anything goes, as the sun through the zodiac, and the moon through the lunar mansions, orManzil al Kamar, the Arabic appellation of the lunar zodiac still used in the East. Itoccurs in the sacred Scriptures only in 2 Kings xxiii. 5, probably in the same sense.The object of this work is to show, by the combined testimony of tradition and of ancientwriters, and from the meaning of the yet extant ancient names of stars and emblems, thatthey were invented to transmit the earliest and most important knowledge possessed bythe first fathers of mankind. Such records were supposed to exist in the hieroglyphics ofEgypt, but among them have only been discovered the names and dates, the conquestsand the praises of sovereigns. It is intended in this work to prove that far higher and moreimportant records, those of the only true wisdom of man, are contained in the emblems ofthe constellations. The agreement of the figures will be shown, with the types used by"the holy prophets who have been since the world began," in their predictions of Him,first promised to Adam as the seed of the woman and the conqueror of the serpent; alsothat in the names the very words in which their prophecies were delivered are frequentlyto be recognized; and that the primitive roots (by which the Assyrian and Babylonishrecords are now interpreted) exist alike in the names of the stars and in the dialects usedby the prophets. These names, and the ideas conveyed by the figures, are traced in themythology of the nations; and it will be shown, from the confused and incongruous usethere made of them, that the fables were invented from the constellations, and not theconstellations from the fables.* It has been attempted by means of these coincidences** toderive the origin of all religions from the constellations; but no reasons have been givenwhy the constellations should be thus figured and thus named. In this work such reasonswill be brought forward, and adequate cause assigned, in the revelation made to Adamand recorded by the subsequent prophets, for the invention of these names and figures;their origin being sought in the religion given by God, and in their perversion being foundthe origin of the false religions set up by man.* The evidences by which these statements are supported will be found in the SecondPart.

** Dupuis, L'Origine des Cultes.NOTE ON "CONSTELLATIONS."The ancients divided the heavens by forty-eight constellations, imaginary and arbitrarydivisions, sometimes, but not always, comprising remarkable stars. Among the twelvesigns, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Scorpio, and Virgo, have bright stars, leading the eye to fixon them as constellations, but the others have not; and would not be naturallydistinguished as such. It is therefore evident that the distinction of the starry heavens intoconstellations, like the division of the earth into districts, is the world of man'simagination for his own purposes. In this case the purpose was to declare the glory ofGod. Orion, the Great Bear, Cassiopea, Lyra, the Southern Cross, and perhaps someothers, have bright stars pointing them out, but the records of ancient astronomy onlydetermine what minor stars are reckoned as belonging to them; for instance the serpentineemblems are so mingled with the others as to be complained of as causing confusion bythose who did not see in them an intentional type of the works of the enemy as intricatelyinterwoven with the destinies of man.QUESTIONSTO WHICH IT IS GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT THERE IS NO CERTAINANSWERTO BE GIVEN, TRADITION OR CONJECTURE BEING ALL THAT IS EVERALLEGED.TraditionalAnswersAnswers given bythis ExplanationWho was theinventor ofastronomy?Seth or Thoth, orHermes; Enoch orEdris, Oannes orNoah.Seth, the son of Adam,with Adam andEnoch.*When was itinvented?Very early.In the first age ofmankind.*In the East: somesay Chaldea; some,Egypt or India.In their firsthabitations, in or nearthe land of Eden, saidto have been betweenChaldea and India.*QuestionsWhere?