![]() As his servant, Gugalanna would have been associated with all of these. Though a deity, Gugalanna was the servant of An, the Sumerian king of the gods and lord of the heavens a god of creation, justice, and the cosmos. In fact, only the last 20 tablets concern the planets and stars. It might come as a surprise, but the movements of the other planets were tertiary. Eclipses and weather patterns also affected astrological predictions. It’s interesting to note that EAE places primary importance on the movements of the Moon, followed by the Sun. This accounts for why the zodiac of Vedic astrology is almost identical to the Babylonian Zodiac. Many believe copies of the tablets made their way to India via trade routes between 400 and 300 BCE. ![]() One of the main purposes of keeping such thorough astronomical-astrological records was to predict the state of the king and the nation, although natal and predictive astrology was performed for the common man, despite what some have claimed. The text is composed of 68-70 astrological tablets, which include anywhere from 6,500 to 7,000 specific astrological predictions. When Anu and Enlil also known as Enuma Anu Enlil (EAE). ![]() ![]() Among the earliest of these compilations is a is □□□□□□□ U 4 AN.NA lit. The Babylonian star catalogs are among the first and most comprehensive codification of astronomical observation. ![]()
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