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The Zodiac; the word could be translated as Animals-Shining but literally means Bearing Animals.
The zodiac is a circle of constellations on the ecliptic, i.e. the apparent path of the sun and planets in the sky; the idea of dividing the heavens into a circle of three hundred and sixty degrees and then dividing that circle into thirty degree sections to form the houses, i.e. constellations, of the zodiac originated with the ancient Sumerians and was adopted by succeeding cultures, including the Greeks.
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