Meaning of goat-fish | Babel Free

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A sea goat (upper half goat, lower half fish).

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“The Centaure, the horn'd goatfiſh Capricorne, The ſnake-heard [sic] Gorgon, and fierce Sagittar.”

“From this figuring Camões, in Os Lusiadas of 1572, called it the Semi-Capran Fish, as it is now with us the Goat-Fish and the Sea Goat.”

“In the analogous case of the goatfish, represented in Dendera and on the boundary stones by quite similar pictures (figs. 6 and 7), we know that it was transferred to the sky before 700 B.C., since the constellation suh̬ur-maš is mentioned in ᵐᵘˡAPIN.”

“Similarly, the ibex with the round symbol in its horns, though for several thousand years past removed from its original place among the stars and reduced later to the little constellation of the Goat-Fish (Šuh̬ur-máš, Capricorn), subsists as an artistic motif throughout the millennia.”

“"Ea", the beneficent god of earth and life, who dwelt in the abyssal waters, was shown with two streams running from his hands or shoulders; he became Aquarius, and his symbols also formed the constellations of Capricornus (Ea's goat-fish, first seen on the seal of Ur just before 2000 BC), the Field (our Square of Pegasus), Piscis Austrinus, and perhaps Pisces [...] and Aries (Ea's ram's-head staff).”

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