The "Greek Sphere"--Aratus--St Paul's Sermon at Athens--The Constellations of Ptolemy's Catalogue--References to the Constellations in Hesiod and Homer--The Constellation Figures on Greek Coins--And on Babylonian "Boundary-stones"--The Unmapped Space in the South--Its Explanation--Precession--Date and Place of the Origin of the Constellations--Significant Positions of the Serpent Forms in the Constellations--The Four "Royal Stars"--The Constellations earlier than the Old Testament 149 CHAPTER II. GENESIS AND THE CONSTELLATIONS The Bow set in the Cloud--The Conflict with the Serpent--The Seed of the Woman--The Cherubim--The "Mighty Hunter" 162 CHAPTER III. THE STORY OF THE DELUGE Resemblance between the Babylonian and Genesis Deluge Stories--The Deluge Stories in Genesis--Their Special Features--The Babylonian Deluge Story--Question as to its Date--Its Correspondence with both the Genesis Narratives--The Constellation Deluge Picture--Its Correspondence with both the Genesis Narratives--The Genesis Deluge Story independent of Star Myth and Babylonian Legend 170 CHAPTER IV. THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL AND THE ZODIAC Joseph's Dream--Alleged Association of the Zodiacal Figures with the Tribes of Israel--The Standards of the Four Camps of Israel--The Blessings of Jacob and Moses--The Prophecies of Balaam--The Golden Calf--The Lion of Judah 186 CHAPTER V. LEVIATHAN The Four Serpent-like Forms in the Constellations--Their Significant Positions--The Dragon's Head and Tail--The Symbols for the Nodes--The Dragon of Eclipse--Hindu Myth of Eclipses--Leviathan--References to the Stellar Serpents in Scripture--Rahab--Andromeda--"The Eyelids of the Morning"--Poetry, Science, and Myth 196 CHAPTER VI. THE PLEIADES Difficulty of Identification--The most Attractive Constellations--_Kimah_--Not a Babylonian Star Name--A Pre-exilic Hebrew Term--The Pleiades traditionally Seven--Mädler's Suggestion--Pleiades associated in Tradition with the Rainy Season--And with the Deluge--Their "Sweet Influences"--The Return of Spring--The Pleiades in recent Photographs--Great Size and Distance of the Cluster 213 CHAPTER VII. ORION _Kesil_--Probably Orion--Appearance of the Constellation-- Identified in Jewish Tradition with Nimrod, who was probably Merodach--Altitude of Orion in the Sky--_Kesilim_--The "Bands" of Orion--The Bow-star and Lance-star, Orion's Dogs--Identification of Tiamat with Cetus 231 CHAPTER VIII. MAZZAROTH