"And thus in Nineveh and in Babylon were found in one and the same temple altars erected for the worship of the stars and observatories for the study of their movements.

From Asia, where Astrology flourished particularly in Chaldea (Chaldea was a nation in the southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain.) and in India, it spread over the rest of the ancient world - Eqypt, Greece, Rome and the various Mediterranean countries.

It would seem that it was the Assyrians (The Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history which spans over 6700 years) who, having for their chief gods the Sun and the Moon, conceived the Zodiac and best described the journey of the two principal "luminaries" through the twelve constellations corresponding to a division into twelve months of the complete rotation of the Sun round the Earth.

It was Greece which gave to the planets (early distinguished from the stars but of which only those were known which are visible to the naked eye) and to the signs of the Zodiac the divine or symbolic names which we have preserved (even in astonomy)."