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Queen of the Night  The Role of the Stars in the Creation of the Child In Queen of the Night, author Gavin White develops a radial new theory of how the prehistoric peoples of the Near East conceived of the … Continue reading →

ILLUSTRATION REFERENCES BSL-2. A few sources are still missing. All illustrations are redrawn by the author. The picture sources are as follows: Original – Gavin White. Loosely based on the ‘Babylonian Map of the World’ – see Horowitz 1998, pages … Continue reading →

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES Allen 1963. Star Names. Their Lore and Meaning. Dover. Alster 1976. On the Earliest Sumerian Literary Tradition. Journal for Cuneiform Studies 28. Annus 2002, The God Ninurta. Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. As-Sufi 1954. Uranometry or Suwaru’l-Kawakib. Osmania … Continue reading →

NOTES TO BSL-2 Paragraphs (§) are numbered from the start of each gazette section and where the text continues they are numbered from the top of the page. The boxed sections are referred to as ‘Name-boxes’ and are not included … Continue reading →

Mul-Apin is a composite text that can be thought of as a general compendium dealing with many diverse aspects of celestial divination.The first sections of tablet 1 list all the mainstream Babylonian constellations along with the deities associated with them. … Continue reading →

PUBLISHER’S UPDATE: ‘Babylonian Star-Lore’ is to be updated and republished with full text and illustration references by late 2014 ___________________________________________________________ BABYLONIAN STAR-LORE An Illustrated Guide to the Stars & Constellations of Ancient Babylonia by Gavin White Today our most obvious … Continue reading →

    The following notes describe the essential meanings of the 50 or so mainstream constellations found in the Babylonian tradition. For more information on these and other less well-known stars and constellations the reader is referred to ‘Babylonian Star-lore, An … Continue reading →

Map 2 draws on a wide range of sources including the Greek Star-map, the Dendera Zodiacs and medieval Arabian traditions, to produce a complete reconstruction of the Babylonian heavens. This is, I believe, the first concerted attempt to reconstruct the … Continue reading →