Enuma Anu Enlil

Japanese: 《エヌマ・アヌ・エンリル》 - えぬまあぬえんりる
Enuma Anu Enlil

…Records of the correspondence between the movements of the heavenly bodies and the fates of people and nations date back to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. The oldest astrological text, Enuma-anu-enlil, records the omen of Sin (the moon god), Shamash (the sun god), Adad (the weather god), and Ishtar (the Venus god), and is thought to have been created during the First Babylonian Dynasty (its heyday was in the 18th century BC). This tradition extended to the Assyrian and Persian Empires, and since Babylonia was also called Chaldea by the Greeks, this sacred science was called the "Chaldean art" and the priestly class that monopolized it was called the "Chaldeans." …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…天体の運行と人間や国家の運命との照応関係の記録は前2千年紀の初めころから存在する。最古の占星術文献といわれる《エヌマ・アヌ・エンリル》はシン(月神)とシャマシュ(太陽神),アダド(天候神),イシュタル(金星神)の凶兆を記しているが,その成立はバビロン第1王朝(最盛期前18世紀)の頃と考えられている。この伝統はアッシリア,ペルシア帝国に及び,バビロニアがギリシア人によってカルデアとも呼ばれたことから,この神聖科学は〈カルデア人の術〉と,これを独占する司祭階級は〈カルデア人〉と称された。…

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