[Sidenote: Pyramid Times [Mariette 4200, Brugsch 3700.]] Another Swarm from N.E., certainly from Babylonia this time, and apparently by isthmus only, since no E.-W. temples are found on Red Sea roads. They no longer bring Anu alone. There is a Spring Equinox Sun-God. 3700 Southern people at Barkal and Thebes in force; temple-building on a large scale. Chnemu begins to give place to Amen-Rā. Still more blending between _original_ and Southern peoples. 3500 Final blending of North and South cults at Thebes. Temples founded there to Set and Min, on the lines of Annu and An. 3200 Establishment of worship of Amen-Rā at Thebes. Supremacy of Theban priests. CHAPTER XXXVII. THE EGYPTIAN AND BABYLONIAN ECLIPTIC CONSTELLATIONS. I have already, in Chapter XXXII., pointed out that at Annu we seemed limited to Set as a stellar divinity; so soon as pyramid times are reached, however, this was changed, and we found the list of the gods increased, and the worship of the sun and of stars in the constellations of the Bull and Scorpion went on, if it was not begun, in Egypt, in pyramid times. These constellations were connected with the equinoxes; and associated with the introduction of these new worships in pyramid times was the worship of the bull Apis. The first question which now arises is, When were any ecliptic constellations established in Babylonia? and next, Which were they? Jensen, in his "Kosmologie der Babylonier," tells us that there is some very definite information relating not only to Taurus and Scorpio, but to Capricornus and other winter constellations; and, as in Egypt so in Babylonia, for the first references to the constellations we have to refer to the religion and the mythology. So far as I have been able to gather, any myth like the Egyptian myth of Horus, involving combats between the sun and circumpolar star gods, is entirely lacking in Babylonia, but a similar myth in relation to some of the ecliptic constellations is among the best known. Jensen shows that the first notions of the Babylonian constellations are to be got by studying the sun-gods, and especially the mythic war between the later sun-god Marduk and the monster Tiāmat. I have already referred to Marduk; he is the Spring Sun-God, and it has also been stated that the greatest god of ancient Babylonia, Ía of Eridu, was connected with the constellation of Capricornus. Marduk represented the constellation of the Bull. Here I quote Jensen:--[177]