Sign English Peruvian Mexican Maya -------------------------------------------------------- Aries Ram Llama Flayer -- Taurus Bull (originally Stag) Stag Stag or Deer Stag Gemini Twins Man and Woman Twins Two Generals Cancer Crab Cuttlefish Cuttlefish Cuttlefish Leo Lion Puma Ocelot Ocelot Virgo Virgin (Mother Goddess of Cereals) Maize Mother Maize Mother Maize Mother Libra Scales (originally part of Scorpio) Forks Scorpion Scorpion Scorpio Scorpion Mummy Scorpion Scorpion Sagittarius Bowman Arrows or Spears Hunter and War God Hunter and War God Capricornus Sea Goat Beard Bearded God -- Aquarius Water Pourer Water Water Water Pisces Fishes(and Knot) Knot Twisted Reeds -- Notice how closely these lists are alike. The ram does not appear in America because no such animal was known there. The nearest substitute was the llama. In the Old World the second constellation is now called the bull, but curiously enough in earlier days it was called the stag in Mesopotamia. The twins, instead of being Castor and Pollux, may equally well be a man and a woman or two generals. To landsmen not familiar with creatures of the deep, the crab and the cuttlefish would not seem greatly different. The lion is unknown in America, but the creature which most nearly takes his place is the puma or ocelot. So it goes with all the signs of the zodiac. There are little differences between the Old World and the New, but they only emphasize the resemblance. Mathematically there is not one chance in thousands or even millions that such a resemblance could grow up by accident. Other similarities between ceremonies or religious words in the Old World and the New might be pointed out, but the zodiac is illustration enough.