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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes. The Greeks are literally why you have to pretend to respect people that talk about Pisces in ascendency or whatever, and their astrologers were their astronomers, they recognized the difference between observation and divination but used the terms interchangeably nonetheless.

There are some famous examples who doubtless thought the mysticism was nonsense, but it was what paid the bills so they told their patrons what they wanted to hear and then went back to their math and charts.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

It's older than the Greeks. The astrologers in Mesopotamia already collected historic events as a source for predictions

The Greeks mostly copied that. If they created it, they wouldn't have used this 'goat' as the first constellation of the year that started with the spring equinox.

[–] Haus@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do Cassiopeia now. Literally boobies.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This post is worthless without a picture of them boobies.

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] And009@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

No it's HD Bobs. Tomb raider style.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Whoa whoa whoa, WTF dude. Put a NSFW tag on this. Some people have jobs and can get fired for this.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

✅ Featherless ❌ Biped

Well it’s not a man, could be a goat

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] eldain@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Logging the sky since forever, OP is such a doofus for reposting this 🤭

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

In the ancient world there was no difference between astrologer and astronomer.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago

They be astrologging and we couldn't stop them cutting those astrotree!

[–] Blademax@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mallrat to "Astrologers":

Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It's not a (goat)... it's a Sailboat.

A goat is a sailboat!

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big dipper is the only one that makes sense.

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? Ursa major, the big bear?

The swan at least resembles a stick-figure bird.

[–] theforkofdamocles 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Orion isn’t bad, with his belt and “sword”.

[–] TheOakTree 1 points 1 year ago

Except the dangling thing under his belt is definitely... not part of his belt.