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[Bronze Age Text
(CLICK to Enlarge) Second section of the ancient
Nordic zodiac inscribed by Woden-lithi at his Peterborough observatory. Only the Lion (L-N, Old Norse leon)
is identified in Tifinag script. From
the upper right Leo (apparently a lynx), and beneath to its left the virgin, Virgo. Then follow the zodiacal signs for winter,
identified as W-N-T (Old Norse vintr),
which are Scorpio to the lower left of Virgo, Sagittarius, the archer, and Capricornus,
the sea-goat,
both to the lower right; and upper left Aquarius, the water-carrier, and Pisces,
the fishes. The sign for Libra (scales) does not appear in
any zodiac before ca. 300 BC, when it was formed from the claws of the
scorpion. The archer, in all the
oldest zodiacs, appears as a centaur carrying a bow, as is apparently the
intention in the Peterborough zodiac.
The signs are not arranged in definite accordance with their sequence,
probably because the only part of the zodiac of concern in calendar
regulation at that prehistoric time was the equinoctial point between Aries and
Taurus (Fell 1982). |