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The Chaldeans contribution is The Hanging Garden of Babylonian and they invented the Zodiac Sign.

The ancients all had their methods of divination but it is thought that the Chaldeans of Babylon with their two systems, i.e. liver divination and star-gazing, laid the true foundation of Ptolemy's horoscope based Astrology. (Lindsay, p.9) The practice of liver divination was motivated by specific questions, whose answer was revealed by the nature of the liver at the moment of sacrifice.

"The Babylonian diviner somehow felt that the blow of the sacrificial knife linked the victim with the whole universe in a sort of lightening stroke." (Lindsay, p.26)

This sense of the importance of the moment is carried over into astrology where the moment of birth has ultimate significance. Ptolemy, besides devoting a section of his introduction to the justification of this notion of a starting point, katarche, also stressed the importance of the exact moment of birth, necessary to "the fraction of the hour of the birth." (Ptolemy, p.228) So the significance of the sacrificial moment becomes linked to the moment of birth.

While Chaldean liver divination had a personal characteristic that was determined by the individual destiny of those performing the sacrifice or posing the questions, their second system of divination, through the stars, had a more general nature. It dealt with the heavenly bodies in relation to the national destiny; this concerned itself primarily with the undertakings of the ruler. The phenomena of primary interest were those most readily observable, i.e. eclipses, the relation of the sun and moon, and the appearance of the sky in general. Because the eclipse was the most dramatic of the celestial phenomena it came to have special significance. Its appearance portended danger. (Lindsay, Page 3)

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