And nowhere is it best illustrated as symbolic astrology, than in the Epic of Gilgamesh (for more on this, see my presentation on the terrestrial astrology in the Gilgamesh Epic from UAC 2010). This is one of the oldest, most universal and most significant "astrological" concepts that mankind has ever devised. In fact, you don't need to create a house system to understand the Sun's trajectory over terrestrial space throughout the year and to connect it with months. However, in Babylonian astrology, the calendar months were conceived of as having both a terrestrial and astral component as early as the mid 2nd millennium B.C.E., centuries before the Zodiac was even in use. The name of this house as the Idle Place in Hellenistic sources, can be traced all the way back to Sumeria, a fact that most historians of astrology ignore, since they assume that the meaning of the houses must post-date the first recorded appearance of the use of an Ascendant in Hellenistic Egypt.
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