Re: Indians
by Anil Babbur on Jan 16, 2011 12:57 AM
Get a life dude, it was babylonians who invented astrology. As time passed by, that knowledge eventually came to India and China and underwent local changes. For instance , chinese astrology is lot different from us.
I read this article about Ophiuchus in a children's magazin (Nandan) about 15 years ago. It also appeared in Times of India a couple of year later. Though it was never officially accepted by "astologers".
I later found that it is also mentioned in "Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum" published in 1904!
The idiots at rediff are just recycling old news or are blatantly publishing recycled news by other news agencies without original research.
Re: Recycled
by Ajit Birdi on Jan 15, 2011 12:00 AM
Prateek read the article again.It clearly states "the existence of Ophiuchus is not a new discovery. The Western astrological chart is derived from that of the ancient Babylonians, who created the star signs by tracking where the sun was in the sky each month. They then got rid of the thirteenth sign to bring the number down to an even 12 over 2,000 years ago."
Re: Re: Recycled
by Prateek C on Jan 15, 2011 01:58 AM
I am not talking about the exitance of Ophiuchus, but this whole thing about including this in the star-signs and the changed dates.
Maybe some other organisation made it "official" earlier.
For example read the following post (posted in 2007)
Re: Recycled
by ashutosh gupta on Jan 14, 2011 11:32 PM
Mr. Prateek you are right, however,the Minnesota Planetarium Society made it official recently and it was on news - Today show at MSNBC. You are right the world has known about it since ages but was officially announced recently.
Re: There are 13 starsigns -- and yours has changed!
by sukhmeet singh on Jan 14, 2011 08:45 PM
good observation , enough proof that article is a copy-paste one....
If these star sign was everything then it would have been known everty person how he/she going to do well in life ,but its not .it all depends how one sow the seeds in present .his or here future depends on that.
WE say we are modern yet we believe in this stuff :(( said !!
