Autor: Voegelin, Eric

Buch: Israel and Revelation

Titel: Israel and Revelation

Stichwort: Mythologisches Grundsystem: Zeit. Raum, Herrschaft, omphalos; Zodiak, Zahl 12, Bodin

Kurzinhalt: a central set of symbols. This nucleus is surrounded by a wealth of auxiliary symbols; Reduktion des Zodiak von 15 auf 12; Bedeutung der Zahl 12: Israel, Ptolemäus ...

Textausschnitt: The mythical expressions of time, space, and substance of dominion, together with the omphalos, form a central set of symbols. This nucleus is surrounded by a wealth of auxiliary symbols, held together among themselves and united with the principal four by their common origin in the Sumero-Babylonian astronomic system.
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This reduction of the zodiac to the dodekaoros is a feat of astronomical rationalization under the influence of the number twelve. The number itself, and its importance, results from the occurrence of twelve full moons within the solar year, so that the division of the year into twelve lunar months inevitably suggests itself.
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And, still in the Jewish tradition, one should not forget the twelve apostles of Christ. In Hellas there is to be found a similar penchant for the number twelve in ordering the tribes.
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These were the beginnings of an astrological geography which reached its full development in the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy in the second century A.D. In Ptolemy's work astrological causality was extended from the regions to their inhabitants.