Figure 1: Star map showing Ninurta-Mercury uniting with the Scorpion’s Stinger-god, Sharur, to vanquish the seven-headed Asakku-demon, Hydra, from the pre-dawn Babylonian sky.

 

 

 

 

Figure 2: Art motif depicting a god, probably Ninurta-Mercury, slaying a seven-headed dragon, probably the Asakku-demon, Hydra. The representation may portray the climax from the “Ninurta and the Asakku-demon” myth.

 

 

 

Figure 3: Star map. Revelations 12:1-4 may be based on a celestial image. The passage tells how a “great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.” It goes on to explain how a “huge dragon” with “seven heads” also appeared, and, with his tail, “swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them down to earth.” Virgo is a celestial Woman. The sun passes through her on its annual circuit, which may explain the biblical term that she is “clothed with the sun.” At times the moon moves directly beneath her feet. On one side of this Woman sprawls a multi-headed Dragon, Hydra, and on one side hovers the Crown constellation, Corona Borealis.

 

 

 

 

Figure 4: Bow-less Argo as shown on the second century Farnese Astrel Globe.

 

 

Figure 5: Early third century Greek coin depicting Noah and his wife emerging from the “chest” used by the Classical flood hero, Deucalion. The Greek spelling of Noah, ΝΩΕ, can be faintly recognized on the front of this little ark.

 

Figure 6: Satellite photo of an ark-shaped image near Mount Ararat that appeared in Life magazine in September 1960.

 

Figure 7:  A military surveillance team standing before the geological feature that resembled an “ark” in satellite photos.

 

Figure 8: Star map depicting Hercules—an upside down, kneeling hero—in combat with the multiheaded Hydra while the zodiacal Crab looks on.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 9: Ophiuchus, a generic Serpent-Holder constellation, grapples with a large Snake. This image imparted that Hercules once wrestled with a giant snake.

 

 

 

 

Figure 10: In the sky, Hercules appears to be stomping on the head of the huge snake Draco, while simultaneously walloping it with his club.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figures 12 and 13: Two preliterate Sumerian motifs depicting a square levitating above an Ibex. The square probably represents the Iku, “Field,” constellation.
 

 

 

Figure 10: Enlargement of the Iku/Field constellation straddled by the Twin-Fishes, Pisces, on the Egyptian calendar of Denderah (circa time of Christ.)

 

Figure 11: Greek astronomer-priests apparently adopted the Iku/Field constellation from Mesopotamia, noticed that is spelled “Horse,” and transformed the figure into Pegasus. Because Iku-Pegasus is surrounded by the water signs Goatfish, Water-god, Fish, Sea Monster, and Twin-Fishes, they construed that the astral Horse had struck its hooves against a plot of land and a spring spouted forth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 12: Cylinder seal depicting the common Mesopotamian cargo vessel known as a magur-boat.

 

 

 

Figure 13: The Magur-boat constellation always rose into the Mesopotamian night sky with its bow “cut down.”

 

 

Figure 14: The Magur-boat waxes until resting flush on the southern horizon, its bow “not cut down.”

 

 

Figure 15: The Magur boat constellation (Argo) as it appeared to Hellenistic astronomer-poets when viewed from Athens, the lowest vantage point on the Greek mainland.

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 16: The Magur-boat constellation (Argo) when viewed from the Assyrian capital of Nineveh (36°).