Re: Pictographic zodiacal symbols
"Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode" <[email protected]>
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On 8/13/24 11:06, Erik Carvalhal Miller via Unicode wrote: > But the Latin word Aquarius means “water carrier” — however in English > usually explained as “Water Bearer” — I've always wondered, then, why the "thirteenth zodiac sign" is Ophiucus and not Serpentarius. All the other zodiac signs are named in Latin, why this one in Greek? I did once actually find, in a deck of cards showing the constellations, that constellation labeled "Ophiucus or Serpentarius", but really nowhere else. ~mark