Who invented star signs??

Question

Was it like a race, or a culture or something like that?

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Answer 1

The Egyptians.!!!

Answer 2

The answer is lost in the past, but the Assyrians, Babylonians and Indians all had a hand in its origins... at least 4,000 years ago... no one really knows who was first... it predates all the major religions.

Answer 3

The actual beginnings of astrology are lost in history. From the Old Babylonian period (1800-1700 B.C.) we have the first records of attempts to correlate such simple, basic problems as famine, death, or war with the positions of the stars and planets. These records were kept over a wide range of territory, from what is now Turkey to Iraq and Iran. The “Venus Tablets of Ammisaduqa,” recording the motions of the planet Venus, were themselves copies of earlier observations made in the time of King Ammisaduqa, tenth ruler of the First Dynasty of Babylon, circa 1626 B.C.

      In the earliest times, omens derived from astronomical observations were applied solely to the rulers or to matters of public welfare; it was some time before other, ordinary individuals were permitted, by law, to have forecasts made for them. In Rome, astrology was so popular at one period that Caesar Augustus (63 B.C. - A.D. 14) forbade its use as too dangerous to the proper conduct of government.

      Astrology was, in its beginnings, a genuine search for knowledge——an attempt to find, in the configurations of the stars and planets, some meaning for humans that might enable them to ascertain something about the future, as if that future were written, obscurely but gloriously, in the heavenly patterns that nightly present themselves to observers.

      Only five planets——Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—— were known to the early observers. Since they were named after gods and were believed to represent the actual bodies of the gods, the movements of those objects against the background of mythical figures represented by the constellations seemed important. It was that relationship of god to “sign” that was the basis for the notion that the fortunes of humanity were to be found by examining the night skies.

      There were two divisions to astrology at first. Horary astrology dealt with measuring motions of the stars and planets and thereby predicting their configurations. This division eventually grew into astronomy. Horary astrology was essential for performing the second type, judiciary astrology, the popular aspect that offered——and still offers——predictions and trends to the clients.

      Such a notion is seductive because it seems to make life simpler. It attributes everything from interpersonal relationships to the destiny of nations to the stars. It appears to eliminate the understandable confusion offered by life, confusion created both by the advances of new technology and by highly specialized knowledge that are beyond the reach and comprehension of the average person, and it seems to remove the need for personal responsibility, handing it all over to fate but allowing a glimpse into the future that might provide some advantage.

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Answer 4

The modern ones we use came from the Ancient Egyptians

Answer 5

Some people who are dead I think made em' up

Answer 6

The first thing you need to know is that constellations are not real!

The constellations are totally imaginary things that poets, farmers and astronomers have made up over the past 6,000 years (and probably even more!). The real purpose for the constellations is to help us tell which stars are which, nothing more. On a really dark night, you can see about 1000 to 1500 stars. Trying to tell which is which is hard. The constellations help by breaking up the sky into more managable bits. They are used as mnemonics, or memory aids. For example, if you spot three bright stars in a row in the winter evening, you might realize, "Oh! That's part of Orion!" Suddenly, the rest of the constellation falls into place and you can declare: "There's Betelgeuse in Orion's left shoulder and Rigel is his foot." And once you recognize Orion, you can remember that Orion's Hunting Dogs are always nearby.

Around the world, farmers know that for most crops, you plant in the spring and harvest in the fall. But in some regions, there is not much differentiation between the seasons. Since different constellations are visible at different times of the year, you can use them to tell what month it is. For example, Scorpius is only visible in the northern hemisphere's evening sky in the summer. Some historians suspect that many of the myths associated with the constellations were invented to help the farmers remember them. When they saw certain constellations, they would know it was time to begin the planting or the reaping.

This dependence on the sky became a strong part of many cultures. Perhaps there is something about the mystery of the night sky that makes people want to tell stories about the constellations. The picture at the left is an ornate star chart printed in 1835. Like the others, it shows the great hunter Orion. In this one, he is holding a lion's head instead of his traditional bow or shield. He has an eager look in his eye as he stalks Taurus, the Bull. Behind him, his faithful dog, Canis Major, is chasing Lepus, the Hare.

The constellations have changed over time. In our modern world, many of the constellations have been redefined so now every star in the sky is in exactly one constellation. In 1929, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) adopted official constellation boundaries that defined the 88 official constellations that exist today.

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constel...

Answer 7

The zodiac predates the Christian era. The ancient Egyptians and the ancient Greeks got it from the Babylonians, who set up astrological charts thousands of years B.C.

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Answer 8

I did.  I wanted easy to remember pictures so i could memorize where the stars are.

I showed my charts to my buddies, and they made up these stories.  And it just kept getting worse and worse.  They were really handy, but i'm starting to think it was a big mistake.

Answer 9

Some magicians who did mind reading tricks and realised some people were stupid enough to take it seriously so they invented horoscopes and made a bundle of money.

You can do the same, just download some cold reading scripts from the internet and you too will be an astrologer.

Answer 10

it was invented by the ancient mesopotamians. they are the people that inhabited modern day Iraq before the greeks, arabs and Aryans invaded it. they where very clever people. way ahead of their time. its said many of their inventions where so advanced that it was lost in time and they had to be reinvented in modern age. they gave us many basic requirements for civilization such as maths, science, astronomy, writing..etc the modern day astrology has gone through many changes because every culture that adopted it made sense of them in different ways. e.g. the greeks and romans saw them as gods, the egyptians used them as guidance or messages from the heaves. the last mesopotamian civilizations was the babylonians who gave us one of the wonders of the ancient world (the hanging gardens). Babylon was invaded by the Persians around 500 to 300 BC and marks the end of the mesopotamian. their knowledge and philosophies have spread through out the world and have been modified.

i don't know who said the mesopotamians where not as advanced as the Indians, that is a propaganda no doubt spread by Indians. when the mesopotamians where learning about the stars the indians where eating raw fish. in fact the two shouldn't even be compared because the indians come after the egyptians, the greeks, and chinese for contributing to civilization. actually they should come after the modern europeans because the europeans have given us the space age and physics etc.. the indians are not major player in the evolution of civilization, they are like the arabs or aryans who rarely made a discovery every now and then.

Answer 11

Nobody's going far back enough.  The first astrology is from India, and it's at least 4,000 years old, people...