Mazzaroth, or the Constellations - Softcover

Rolleston, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530171482 ISBN 13: 9781530171484

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

This is a work that looks at different signs of the zodiac. From the intro:  "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. 

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530171482
• ISBN 13: 9781530171484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390