1. Mesha ........................... Ram, or Aries. 2. Rishabha .......................Bull, or Taurus. 3. Mithunam ................... Twins, or Gemini (male and female). 4. Karkataka ...................... Crab, or Cancer. 5. Simha .............................. Lion, or Leo. 6. Kanya ............................. Virgin or Virgo.* 7. Tula .......................... Balance, or Libra. 8. Vrischika ..................... Scorpion, or Scorpio. 9. Dhanus ....................... Archer, or Sagittarius. 10. Makara ........... The Goat, or Capricornus (Crocodile, in Sanskrit). 11. Kumbha .................. Water-bearer, or Aquarius. 12. Meenam ................. Fishes, or Pisces. The figures of the constellations included in the signs at the time the division was first made do not at all resemble the shapes of the animals, reptiles and other objects denoted by the names given them. The truth of this assertion can be ascertained by examining the configurations of the various constellations. Unless the shape of the crocodile** or the crab is called up by the observer's imagination, there is very little chance of the stars themselves suggesting to his idea that figure, upon the blue canopy of the starry firmament. -------- * Virgo-Scorpio, when none but the initiates knew there were twelve signs. Virgo-Scorpio was then followed for the profane by Sagittarius. At the middle or junction-point where now stands Libra and at the sign now called Virgo, two mystical signs were inserted which remained unintelligible to the profane.--Ed. Theos. ** This constellation was never called Crocodile by the ancient Western astronomers, who described it as a horned goat and called it so-- Capricornus.--Ed. Theos. --------