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--Maedler'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

Probably the "Signs of the Zodiac"--Babylonian Creation
Story--Significance of its Astronomical References--Difference
between the "Signs" and the "Constellations" of the Zodiac--Date
of the Change--And of the Babylonian Creation Epic--Stages of
Astrology--Astrology Younger than Astronomy by 2000 Years--
_Mazzaroth_ and th