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AS in Egypt so in Babylonia, for the first references to the constellations we must study the religion and the mythology; Jensen shows that the first notions of the Babylonian constellations are to be got by studying the sun-gods, and especially the mythic war between the later sun-god Marduk and the monster Tiāmat.
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LOCKYER, J. Early Asterisms2 II. Nature 48, 518–520 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048518a0
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