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Rolleston-Mazzaroth.Pdf or, The Constellations by Frances Rolleston Philologos Religious Online Books Philologos.org MAZZAROTH; or, the CONSTELLATIONS. "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?" — Job xxxviii. 32 FIRST PART London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place. 1862 CONTENTS OF THE FIRST PART. · Preface · Questions to which it is generally believed that there is no certain Answer to be given, Tradition or Conjecture being all that is ever alleged · Objections sometimes urged as to the Origin and Meaning of the Names and Figures of the Ancient Constellations · What are the real Meanings of the Emblems of the Signs? · The Latin Names of the Twelve Signs accounted for by their Semitic Roots · The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, as connected with the Primitive Prophecies · Mazzaroth. Chapter I · Mazzaroth. Chapter II SECOND PART London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place. 1862 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND PART · Explanation of the Tables · Prophecies of the Messiah, His People and His enemy, corresponding with the Thirty-six Decans or Constellations accompanying the Signs · Authorities for the Antiquity of the Signs of the Zodiac, their Names and Forms · Aries. The Ram, or Lamb, coming Forth · Taurus. The Bull, coming to Rule · Gemini. The Twins, the United · Cancer. The Crab or Scarabaeus, holding the Possession · Leo. The Lion, the Separating · Virgo. The Woman, bearing the Branch · Libra. The Scales, the Redeeming · Scorpio. The Scorpion, the Conflict · Sagittarius. The Archer, the Going Forth · Capricornus. The Goat, the Atonement Slain · Aquarius. The Water-bearer, the Pouring Forth · Pisces. The Fishes, the Multitudes Upheld · Lunar Zodiac; or, Mansions of the Moon · The Galactic Circle. A Way Returning · The Twelve Signs, Sanscrit and Chinese · The Pleiades · Ursa Major and Minor, called the Great and Lesser Bear · Orion · Names of the Antediluvian Patriarchs · Note on Enoch; Notes on the Names of the Antediluvian Patriarchs; on British Triads · Names of the Sons of Jacob, according to their Birth. The Breastplate of the High Priest · Genesis 49 · Numbers 24: Part of the Prophecy of Balaam · Deuteronomy 33: Blessing of Moses · The Encampment of Israel in the Wilderness, and the Breastplate of the High Priest · The Twelve Signs as alluded to by Jacob in Genesis 49, and by Moses in Deuteronomy 33 · Types of the Levitical Law, corresponding with the Signs, or their accompanying Constellations · On the Cherubic Forms as connected with the Emblems of Ancient Astronomy · Symbols of the Constellations. The Twelve Signs · Types of the Apocalypse, corresponding with the Emblems of the Constellations · Prophecies of the Messiah, corresponding with the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and the Twelve Precious Stones of the Foundations of the Holy City of the Apocalypse, Rev 21 · On the Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures, as connected with the Names of Ancient Astronomy · On the Immortality of the Soul as known to the Antediluvian Patriarchs, and to the Ancient Hebrews, and indicated by the Emblems of Ancient Astronomy · On the Book of Job, as connected with the Emblems of Ancient Astronomy · Prophecy, as connected with the Emblems of Ancient Astronomy, for which a Prophetic Import is claimed · On the Original Language to which the Names of Ancient Astronomy are referred · On the Connexion of the Greek with the Semitic Dialects · The Names of the Twelve Chief Gods of Roman and Greek Mythology, explained from their Primitive Roots, and referred to the corresponding Signs · The Twelve Labours of Hercules, as agreeing with the Signs · The Sphinx, as connected with the Sign Virgo · The Sibyl, as connected with the Sign Virgo · On the Sign Virgo · Ancient Arabian and Persian Traditions · The Star of Bethlehem · The Southern Fish, in Aquarius · The Hebrew Alphabet, as connected with the Constellations · On the Antiquity of the Square Character of the Hebrew · Meanings of the Hebrew Alphabet, from Ancient Jewish Authorities. (Gaffarelli, Cur. Lit.) · The Southern Cross · Ancient Names of the Sun, Moon, and Earth, explained from their Primitive Roots · Ancient Names of the Planets, explained from their Primitive Roots · Names of Egyptian Gods, explained from their Primitive Roots, and referred to the corresponding Planets and Signs. The Eight Gods of the First Order · The Twelve Great Gods of Assyria. Presided over by Ashur, the King of the Circle of the Great Gods · Names of the Stones on the Foundations of the Holy City, in the order in which they are given in Revelation 21:19, 20, referred to the Hebrew Roots · On the Sign Capricorn · On the Sign Aries THIRD PART London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place. 1862 CONTENTS OF THE THIRD PART · Days of the Planetary Week, as named after the Sun, Moon, and Five Planets · Memorial Lines for the Planetary Week, as connected with Prophecy · Names of the Days of the Planetary Week of the Brahmins, as given by Le Gentil · Singalese Names of the Days of the Planetary Week, as given by Le Gentil · Siamese Names of the Planetary Week, according to La Loubere · Memorial Lines for the Days of the Week, in analogy with those of Creation · Memorial Lines, according to the Order of the Signs · Memorial Lines, according to the Course of Prophecy · Memorial Lines for the Constellations · Decans · Memorial Lines for the Names of Stars · Note on the Names of the Stars · On the Mansions of the Moon, or Lunar Zodiac · Memorial Lines for the Mansions of the Moon · The Mythology of India, in connexion with Ancient Astronomy · The Mythology of the Scandinavian Nations, as connected with the Ancient Astronomy · Note on Hela · Note on Noetic · Memorial Lines for the Names of the Mythology of India · Memorial Lines for the Names of the Mythology of Scandinavia, with Notes · Memorial Lines for the Names of the Planets · Notes, &c., on the Names of the Planets FOURTH PART London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place. 1865 CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH PART · Preface to Part IV · On the Emblems of Egyptian Mythology · Testimonies to the Great Antiquity Here Claimed for the Emblems of the Constellations, Egyptian and Chaldean · On the Astronomy of the Ancients · Note on the Astronomy of the Ancients · Astrology of the Ancients · Note on the Decans Special thanks to Moza, a research member of Philologos and Bible Prophecy Research, for her help in providing this electronic copy. THIS BOOK HAS BEEN EDITED. Any corrections or questions may be directed to the following address: [email protected] Mazzaroth; or, the Constellations by Frances Rolleston, 1862 Philologos Edition: Nov0901 "... freely ye have received, freely give." (Mat 10:8) Philologos | Bible Prophecy Research | The BPR Reference Guide | Jewish Calendar | About Us or, The Constellations by Frances Rolleston Philologos Religious Online Books Philologos.org Previous | Contents | Next MAZZAROTH*; or THE 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. Many have been repelled by the explanations usually given of these and the other constellations; other have considered them not only useless, but burdensome to the astronomer; and it has been proposed to substitute a kind of survey of the heavens, where lines and angles should take the place of traditional figures. Should this alteration be adopted, the message these figures were intended to transmit will not be less impressive when the types in which it was conveyed are no longer made subservient to the purposes of practical astronomy; especially as through being thus used the forms of the emblems are 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 continually more corrupted. * Mazzaroth, though sometimes in modern lexicons differently interpreted, is here used as meaning the constellations. In Job xxxviii. 32, it stands in the text of the English Bible untranslated: in the margin it is rendered "the twelve signs." Mazzaroth is a feminine or neuter 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 any thing goes, as the sun through the zodiac, and the moon through the lunar mansions, or Manzil al Kamar, the Arabic appellation of the lunar zodiac still used in the East. It occurs 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 ancient writers, and from the meaning of the yet extant ancient names of stars and emblems, that they were invented to transmit the earliest and most important knowledge possessed by the first fathers of mankind. Such records were supposed to exist in the hieroglyphics of Egypt, but among them have only been discovered the names and dates, the conquests and the praises of sovereigns. It is intended in this work to prove that far higher and more important records, those of the only true wisdom of man, are contained in the emblems of the 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; also that in the names the very words in which their prophecies were delivered are frequently to be recognized; and that the primitive roots (by which the Assyrian and Babylonish records are now interpreted) exist alike in the names of the stars and in the dialects used by the prophets. These names, and the ideas conveyed by the figures, are traced in the mythology of the nations; and it will be shown, from the confused and incongruous use there made of them, that the fables were invented from the constellations, and not the constellations from the fables.* It has been attempted by means of these coincidences** to derive the origin of all religions from the constellations; but no reasons have been given why the constellations should be thus figured and thus named.
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