'….in modern times especially past thirty/forty yearsMyth is:
"a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events."
Using the above definition, it is very important. Myth is the truth of past ages. Using names and creatures that depicted what was happening in ages past. Myth uses words from folklore from different regions using different names for the same thing. Names that were important to their region, or world at the time of writing, and of spoken word memory.
Thirteen Venus Avatars
Sumer: INANNA, lover Dumuzi. Where Nana, Dana, Anne, Notre Dame.
Egypt: ISIS or Issis. Hence Ys, Paris, Pâris
Akkadie: ISTAR planet Venus, lover Enkidu. Hence star-stern-star
Babylon: ISTARTE, lover Tamuze the Moon. Where Ester, Aisha
Dilmun: ASTARTE, sister and wife of Baal. Hence star-stern-star
Canaan: ASHERAH, consort Asherah of Yahweh. Hence ash, ash-ram
Punt: APHTORET also Annat, sister and wife of Baal
Cyprus: APHRODITE, born in Cyprus according to Herodotus
Rome: VENUS, the current name of the planet
Scandinavia: FRIGG, Odin’s wife
Germany: FRYDA, friday = Friday, the day of Venus
India: SITA, Rama’s wife. She was red or blonde.
Greece: HELENE, lover of Paris, red or blonde ditto.
The ancients used myth to pass on the information of the past and the planets for us to use as a template. One day, we will pass on through the ages, using names of our time and myth. For venus we might use names from our time, maybe for instance Diana. Known worldwide for her charitable actions, and loved by many. Her truth may become myth and be cast to the star.
'....While mythology is relevant, it is not as importantI mean,
reading the older scientific works,
they seem to be more secular.
In the sense that
they don't try to use mystical matters to explain things,
but
finding ways to explain things using their logic/reason.
I thought the ancient Astrology was earlier in existent than the Greek Mythology.
When was it, when the Sumerians were forecasting for the fortunes looking at the stars?
Alexander Eliot wrote The Global Myths.
While he is not an astrologer,
reading on the Global myths you can see an obvious correlation between myth and the astrological interpretation of entities. While the traditionalists say there is no correlation, they did not get there information from past word of mouth or writings, I am inclined to disagree. The coincidences are too many for it to be chance.
When an entity is refound, or renamed, we go to the name of it, and if it is found in past writings, that is where we start to draw our knowledge from.
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When looking at the fixed stars the myth is used to explain the affects it gifts to astrological meaning. They seem to work together.
Some of the Greek astrological authors like Ptolemy and Valens partook more of the rationalism that was common in ancient Greece and Rome. But society as a whole still worshiped their gods. Some of the authors talked about the ban on doing a horoscope for the emperor, on the grounds that he was divine, so many of the calculations simply wouldn't apply. One thing that comes across in Manilius (1st century CE) is that the heavens were to be spoken of in poetry, as suited the study of the heavens. These beliefs began to change in his day, however.
I can suggest some books if anyone's interested.
The sun god of Greece and Rome initially was Phoebus, but by the time astrology became mainstream later in Antiquity, Apollo was identified as the sun god. Apollo ruled intellectual pursuits, prophecy, and a few other things. Hence the sun joying in the 9th house.
ExactlyI don't think there is any connection
between mythology
and
Astrological predication.
Mythology is more to di wth Literature and Religion.
Astrology is a separate field of craft,
I feel.
Astrology is more to do
correlation with planetary enegry
and
movement of the stars
and human life.
When an entity is refound, or renamed, we go to the name of it, and if it is found in past writings, that is where we start to draw our knowledge from.
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When looking at the fixed stars the myth is used to explain the affects it gifts to astrological meaning. They seem to work together.