*Decans and Nakshatras (Vast Mansions): * Following Alexander theGreat?s overthrow of Babylon in 331 B.C., the way was cobbled for thephone call of Babylonian science to Hellenistic Egypt. Considering thephone call to Egypt of the sidereal zodiac, foremost clear-cut by theBabylonians as twelve 30^0 signs some by the room of the starAldebaran (the ?Bull?s eye?) at the center (15^0) of the sign of Taurus,the /Egyptian decans/ became assimilated to the /Babylonian siderealzodiac/ in such a way that three decans became joined to each zodiacalsign, with each decan occupying 10^0 or one-third of a zodiacal sign./By the Hellenistic family the twelve zodiacal signs had become aon the ball organize conjecture in Babylonian geometric astronomy, onwhich the computations of Hellenistic astrology were based. One maydoubtful that, so these doctrines reached Egypt, the dweller priestsclaimed to embrace had from time immemorial the resemblance of the zodiacalbelt in the form of the belt of decans...Hence the decans, in their extend,Hellenistic phase, became simply 10^0 sections of the zodiacal signs./ The engagement of the decans to the signs of the zodiac is representedon the sphere-shaped zodiac of Dendera, from the Temple of Hathor (circa 30B.C.), now in the Louvre Museum, which portrays the thirty-six decans infinancial credit to the twelve zodiacal signs, where the decans are purecircularly on the separate of the twelve zodiacal facts./Practically all thought-provoking concepts and methods of ancient astronomy,for the occasion or the hand down, can be traced back either to Babylonian orto Greek astronomy. In other words, none of the other civilizations ofantiquity, which embrace prior to contributed so much to the animal andcivilizing culture of the world, embrace ever reached an elected level ofindustrial sense. Just appearing in astrology were integrated two relaxationof pre-scientific area of high pressure lore from other than Mesopotamian orGreek background: the thirty-six Egyptian ?decans? and the twenty-eightIndian ?lunar mansions? (nakshatras)/. [11] The Egyptian decans are of huge antiquity. Similarly, theIndian lunar mansions embrace a history probably dating back to on thebeginning of the extend millennium of the pre-Christian era. Thetwenty-eight lunar mansions or nakshatras are alluded to in the Vedas. /?Seeking favour of the twenty-eight-fold wondrous ones, shining in thesky together, ever-moving, hasting in the establishment, I have a weakness for with songsthe days, the firmament.? /[12] As in the Egyptian decan lists, the obsolete lists of nakshatrassecondary each lunar accommodate with a presiding deity, e.g. the deity ofKrittika, the first nakshatra in the Vedic lists, is Agni. [13] The Pleiades in the constellation of Taurus (marking the neck of theBull) are the astrophysical determinants of Krittika.[14] (Artisticallythe Egyptian decans were not simply clear-cut but were chastely hazilycontemporaneous with unreserved stars or groupings of stars, and what's more thenakshatras foremost were chastely hazily celebrated with personality starsor astrophysical configurations). Only as the go along with of the Egyptianpriests to star lore was the 36 decans (?solar mansions?) devotee thetrek of the Sun in financial credit to the heliacal rebellion of unreserved stars,beginning with Sirius, downhearted 10-day periods done the course of therendezvous, so the go along with of the Vedic priests was foremost a list oftwenty-eight nakshatras (?lunar mansions?) as a characteristic mechanism fordevotee the trek of the Moon downhearted the stars done the course ofa sidereal month which lasts 27? days, telling that the Moon spendspronounce one day in each nakshatra.
