The mythological astronomy, in three parts / [Sampson Arnold Mackey].

  • Mackey, Sampson Arnold
Date:
1827
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Credit: The mythological astronomy, in three parts / [Sampson Arnold Mackey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MYTHOLOGICAL ASTRONOMY OF THE ANCIENTS. The Zodiac, and most of the other Constellations, proved to be the work of the people of Egypt, at least 40,000 years ago; as they then agreed with their latitude, their agriculture, and their commerce. INDULGENT spirits ! full before my eyes, J see the stage, where all your symbols rise! Here stand the Muses, guard'ans of your soil, (1) Whose admonitions governed every toil;— Told when the Parcse were to weave, or spin, (2) And when the Furies vintage should begin ; (3) Told when Tysiphone should cask the wine, (3) And when Megara made the liquor fine, (3) And when, from heaven’s height, the radiant sun Had through three watery constellations run. Then Clio, with her compasses in hand, (4) Admonished men to measure out the land: Meanwhile the woolly cattle graze around. And in the Ram, the autumnal sun was found Above whose horns within the starry sphere, The Geometric Instruments appear: (5)