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Tetraktys
Important to the Pythagoreans, as it encompassed perfection as "10" and also as an equilateral triangle; it was a perfectly harmonious shape to which they created an oath, "I swear by the Tetraktys" |
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Mithras' Torchbearers: DADOPHOROI
The man pointing his torch downwards is known as the CAUTOPATES.
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| Augustus riding marine/aquatic Capricorn. Augustus' sign was Libra -- no artwork of his ever showed Libra, always Capricorn. In some pieces of artwork, an ORBIS TERRARUM was present (the globe), signifying Augustus' control |
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| The Book of the Heavenly Cow is a reaction to the worship of the solar deity... |
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| The Doxographer who postulated the "indefinite" or the "boundless" as the source of reality was... |
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| Herclitus proposed that a ________, an objective law-like principle, governs the cosmons. |
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| The ancients saw the layout of the skies in the scheme known as the.. |
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| This person is credited with introducing the gnomon to the Greeks. |
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| This person's astronomical ceiling seems to represent an Egyptian "horoscope." |
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| Groups or patterns of stars readily visible in the nighttime sky are known as.. |
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| This pharaoh began a particular type of solar monotheism in Egypt. |
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| Babylonian BARE employed haruspicium and ______ in their predicative techniques. |
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| The heliacal rising of this star was of great importance to the Egyptians. |
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| This man believed the universe is set into motion by the operation of "mind." |
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| The eternal embrace of Geb and Nut form the conception of the Egyptian... |
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| Thales believed that the cosmos derived from... |
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| We call a moon that is 3/4 full as a waxing or waning.. |
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| The Babylonians used a number system known as.. |
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| A star's position in terms of longitude is its... |
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| Thales correctly predicted this phenomenon in 585BCE during a great battle. |
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| This tablet recorded mundane events in conjunction with celestial phenomena. |
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| This was a table of values giving the positions of astronomical objects in the sky. |
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| Babylonian inspector priests. |
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| He proposed a cosmos formed out of four essential "roots." |
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| The comprehensive Babylonian astronomy textbook. |
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| To Democritus et al., this was the "uncuttable" portion of the cosmos. |
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| A star's position in terms of its latitude. |
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| This was Hesiod's mythic attempt to explain the setup of the cosmos. |
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| The King who employed a prototype of personal astrology. |
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| He postulated that the universe was governed by a Logos. |
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| In the ancient perspective, this was the inherent nature of the planets. |
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| This planet was conspicuously absent on Senmut's ceiling. |
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| The path of the sun as traced across the sky. |
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| What is the oldest text of the Enuma Anu Enlil? |
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| The "Venus tablet of Ammi-saduqa." |
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| The highly syncretic Egyptian solar deity. |
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| Babylonian script used to record data. |
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| The manifestation of one portion of the moon's orbit. |
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| What is the brightest star visible in the nighttime sky? |
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| According to Xenophanes, this was the source of all phenomena. |
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| A man who replaced Anaximander's apeiron with air. |
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| The point directly above the viewer in the celestial sphere. |
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| Define interrogational astrology. |
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| Interrogation astrology seeks answers to specific questions by studying horoscopes, i.e. What will happen April 30th? |
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| This was the "Anti-Earth" that the Pythagoreans created in order to make the universe a perfect "10"; it was also known as the central fire. |
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| Apollonius first suggested this sphere circling a sphere. He used it in context as Mars circling a sphere which orbited Earth, and this accounted for retrograde motion. |
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| The notion of the "house" equates this with zodiacal signs, for example, "I was born in the House of Leo," meaning "I was born when the sign of Leo was ascendant (rose on the horizon)." |
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| This concept dominated the mindset of the Greco-Roman world. |
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| Plato's mathematical notions seem to be inherited from... |
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| Plato's cosmological theories were presented in this dialogue. |
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| The agent of creation in the Timaeus is the... |
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| This refers to the planets' configurations with one another. |
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| This being first fashioned matter into triangles, them from there,.... |
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| The ascendant is the sign on which an individual's natal _______ is based. |
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| Eudoxus of Cnidus met the challenge of Plato regarding... |
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| This (English or Greek) is Aristotle's impersonal agent of motion. |
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English: The Prime Mover.
Greek: ou kinoumenon kinei. |
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| In astrology, how many degrees are decans divided into? |
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| Pythagoreans were either "the learned" or the "hearers." Give the two proper names for each. |
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| The Mathematikoi or the Akousmatikoi. |
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| The Pythagoreans divided mathematics into multitude and... |
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| Plato believed that fundamental, eternal reality was based in the so-called.. |
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| Aristotle thought all things in the universe had a natural ________ (i.e. a purpose). |
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| Aristotle said that motion occurred when the elements returned to their.. |
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| This is considered to be the strongest of the so-called "essential dignities." |
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| This man postulated a "failed" heliocentric system in the third century BCE. |
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| Pythagoras considered the universe to be a/the... (i.e. "all-inclusive one"). |
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| This scholar first divided the zodiac into a 360 degree projection. |
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| To the Pythagoreans, this was the embodiment of all harmonies. |
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| He nearly correctly calculated the Earth's circumference. |
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| What did Heraclides suggest? |
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| He suggested the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis. |
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| Distinguish between the superlunary and sublunary realms. |
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Superlunary Realm: The realm of NO change; the celestial sphere above the moon.
Sublunary Realm: The realm of change; the area below the moon, including the earth. |
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| This presents a cosmology based on "geometrical atomism." |
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| Who stressed "Save the Phenomena?" |
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| Astrology concerned with an individual's nativity. |
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| An extremely influential text written by Hypsicles of Alexandria. |
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| The "quintessence" in the estimation of Aristotle. |
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| What is Mundane Astrology? |
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| Astrology concerned with groups of people or cities. |
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| The distance between two celestial bodies measured off from a third. |
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| The apparent backwards zodiacal movement of a planet. |
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| Planets in this state wield some very limited "influence." |
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| For a planet's influence, this quality is most important. |
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| The means of all becoming in Plato's cosmology. |
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| What are the Triplicities? |
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| The "Essential Dignities" connected with the four elements. |
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| What is the dividing line in Aristotle's understanding of physics? |
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| What is the weakest of the so called planetary "Essential Dignities?" |
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| What is Katarchic Astrology? |
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| Astrology concerned with an event's inception. |
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| Who was Claudius Ptolemy? |
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| Sometimes confused as the King of Egypt in the Ptolemaic era, Claudius Ptolemy was an astronomical scholar at Alexandria, who wrote the Tetrabiblios, Geographia, and the Almagest. |
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| Literally translated as "the bull slaying," it is an image depicting Mithras killing a bull; this iconic relief is present in almost every Mithraeum. |
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| Written by Firmicus Maternus and dedicated to Mavortius, it was an extremely important astrological textbook. The title derived from a Greek word mathein, which meant "the system of learning." The book was written in Latin, on the topic of astrology. |
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| Who is T. Claudius Thrasyllus? |
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| T. Claudius Thrasyllus was the personal astrologer to the emperor Tiberius. He was rewarded with a rare gift in the Early Roman Empire -- Roman citizenship. He was employed his entire lifetime. |
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| What was Augustus' actual zodiacal sign? What sign did he conspicuously feature in his propaganda? |
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Actual: Libra
Featured: Capricorn |
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| The scholar Theon composed the curriculum by studying this person's works in Alexandria. |
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| A first century BCE inscription from Syria associates Mithras with the solar deities... |
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| This astrologer allegedly predicted Octavian Augustus' rise to greatness. |
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| In Roman terms, astrology as "private religion" was linked to both... |
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| This Christian bishop was a correspondent of the astronomer Hyptatia. |
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| The Mithraic inscriptions of _______ ________ speak of the initiate being born again. |
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| Besides his astrological efforts, this person also wrote On the Error of Pagan Religions. |
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| According to Dio, Augustus' right hand man legislated against astrology in 33CE. |
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| The "Astronomical Canon" is an unfortunately lost book of... |
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| The Mathesis has as one of its core influences the system of... |
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| Ptolemy's astrological theory is connected with the doctrine of the... (2 words) |
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| This astronomer was murdered by a gang of Christian thugs in 415CE. |
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| In terms of profession, Ptolemy is concerned with this branch of astrology. |
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| Personality-based astrology (aka, Horary astrology). |
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| The mystical/entheogenic herb called this appears in the guidelines of the Mithras Liturgy. |
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| Book II of the Tetrabiblios deals with this so-called type of astrology. |
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| This astronomer compiled a catalogue of more than 800 individual stars. |
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| This gesture, represented by a handshake, was a Mithraic ritual. |
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| Syndexioi (bonding, uniting). |
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| This astrologer was shockingly made Prefect of Egypt. |
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| A senatus consultum of 139BCE on astrology tellingly was addressed to the... |
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| A 7th century Ethiopian source for the murder of Hypatia. |
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| The (likely Greek-illiterate) dedicatee of the Mathesis. |
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| What work contains the only known horoscope in Classical Latin Literature? |
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| This is the apparent spiritual goal of the Mithraic initiate. |
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| The renowned and influential astronomical book of Ptolemy. |
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| What is the first of the seven grades of the Mithraic initiate? |
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| Who were the astronoumenoi? |
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| The advanced students of Theon's astronomy curricula. |
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| Who were the stoicheioumenoi? |
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| The "elementary schoolers" of Theron's astronomy curricula. |
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| What was the Roman word-association given to astrologers in generic terms? |
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| What was the Tetrabiblos? |
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| The renowned and influential astrological book of Ptolemy. |
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| This person's writings form the basis of a great deal of Ptolemy's works. |
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| This is the final of the seven grades of Mithraic initiation. |
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| He was the first Roman emperor whom we know as a Mithraic initiate. |
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| This cult was made official under the emperor Aurelian in 274CE. |
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| This man made the statement that Mithras was the sole protector of the empire. |
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| In 11CE, this emperor made peculiar prohibitions against astrology. |
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| This man legislated against astrology and other forms of "paganism." |
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| This person was the author of an Eisagogika (Introduction) to astrology in 378CE. |
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| This work contains instructions for both a "sitter" and a "tripper." |
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| The potentially provocative designation assigned to astrologers. |
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