Index
Abbo of Fleury
17
Abgar of Edessa
329
Abkhaz language
51
Abkhazians
23-24, 28, 30-32, 34, 45, 47n, 52, 57, 161n, 242, 319n, 323, 360, 395, 400
Abkhazian astrology
31-32, 38n, 47
Abraham’s Bosom
84-85, 175, 340
Abū Ma‘shar [Albumasar]
13, 17n, 316
Achmet ibn Sīrīn
239
Acts of the Apostles
342, 396
Adam and Eve
135, 173, 205, 217, 229-30, 237, 349-50, 354
Adbhutasāgara
281
Adamantius
409
Adelung, W. H.
305
Adjarans
47n
Ælfwine, Deacon
347n
Africa
2, 128-29, 425
Agā Muḥammad Khān
27
Agari
320
Ages of man
137
Ages of the world
135
Aghul
43
Agricultural astronomy
7, 53, 55, 58, 152, 292-93, 302, 391
Agricultural treatises
10-11, 14, 208-11, 284
Agriculture
6, 7, 10, 14, 36, 53, 55, 63, 64, 70, 81, 124, 128, 132, 150, 154, 161, 184, 187, 195n, 208, 210, 244, 265, 277, 284, 285, 290, 292, 294, 300, 307, 314-15, 328, 334, 335, 346, 405
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Cornelius
222, 271
Akhaltsikhe
176
Akkadian texts
287, 297
Albertus Magnus
103
Alchemy
6, 169-71, 391, 417
Alexander III of Imereti
24
Alexander Archilovich
28, 78, 103-05, 364
Alexander the Great
10, 136, 282
Alexander Severus
11
Alexandria
10, 11, 134, 191n, 256, 261n, 269, 315
Alexei (tsar)
305
Algol [β Persei]
276n
‘Alī Qushjī
16, 24, 167, 169, 171-72, 245, 341
Almanacco Barbanera
303
Almanacco Perpetuo
25, 61n, 67-147, 164-65, 175-76, 178-80, 192, 218n, 221n, 226, 232-35, 244, 303-05, 330-31, 339-40, 349-50, 362-63, 409, 418-21, 422-23, 429
Almanacs
5, 17, 18n, 69-74, 76, 184, 218, 241, 251-52, 256, 290, 302-05, 340, 391, 405, 422-23
Almas
32
Altair [α Aquilae]
58
Amanita muscaria (fly agaric)
320n
Ambrose of Milan, St.
91, 174, 241
Ammianus Marcellinus
11, 238
Amulets
329, 333, 351
Anachronisms
128, 149, 154, 238, 285, 332, 348
Anania Shirakats‘i [Ananias of Širak]
45
Anatolius of Berytus
14n, 200-01, 213, 306-11
Anatolius Arabicus
307-08, 310-11
Ancient Near East
2, 155-56, 207-08, 286-89, 297
Andarzaghar Zadanfarukh
13n
Angels
37n, 42, 44, 56, 79, 114, 184, 186, 229-30, 253, 272, 343, 347, 349, 351-52, 353, 411
Animal horns
51n
Ansaloni, Sebastiano
69-70
Antiochus of Athens
222, 291, 301, 412
Antiscia
115
Anton I, Catholicos
28, 75, 180
Aperitio portarum
132
Apollonius of Tyana [Balīnās al-Ḥakīm]
307
Appian
320-22, 393
Apuleius
277
Aquarius
12n, 116, 272, 410, 418n
Arabia
31, 36, 56, 90, 92, 149, 154, 255, 392, 401, 406, 412
Arabian astrology
4, 6, 8, 12, 13n, 15-17, 31, 36-38, 43-44, 47, 59, 64, 124, 167, 197, 221-22, 231n, 232-34, 251, 278-79, 338, 364, 392, 393, 401, 404, 406
Arabic language
4, 6, 12-13, 15-17, 31, 36-38, 43-44, 48, 59-60, 61n, 64, 164, 167n, 168, 174, 191n, 197, 233, 239, 248, 279, 302n, 306, 307, 311, 338, 341n, 364, 393, 406
Arabists
17, 338
Aramaic language
62n, 156, 406
Aratus of Soli
152-53, 277, 287, 293n, 294-96, 299-300, 312-13
Aravan
263-64, 266, 268, 395
Archil I of Imereti
24, 28, 104
Archimedes
174
Arcturus [α Boötis]
118, 290, 292, 301
Argolus, Andreas
17, 121-22
Aries
12, 125n, 128, 134, 137, 221, 222n, 260, 263, 271, 393, 400, 403, 404, 412, 417
Aristarchus
108n
Aristotle
16, 17n, 67, 94, 96, 99-101, 103, 137, 150n, 224, 238, 273, 276n, 287n, 289, 396
Armenia
25, 29, 45-46, 57, 63, 76-77, 134, 143, 164, 320n, 358n, 394
Armenian astrology
6, 45-46, 77, 152-53n, 307, 311, 363
Arriaga, Rodrigo de
78, 83, 88, 90-92, 143, 166n, 363
Artemidorus Daldianus
211n, 239-40
Ascensional times
199n
Aselli
233, 299
Assurbanipal
156, 207n
Assyrian texts
156, 207n, 297
Astrolabe
16, 17, 45-46, 167, 172, 341
Astrological determinism
55
Astrological manuscripts, Armenian Matenadaran MS No 9144 (formerly No 880) (18th century)
77
Astrological manuscripts, Georgian
A-38 (974 AD)
3, 63
A-620 [Mc’ire K’urtxevani] (ca. 1700)
63, 148-51, 154, 224, 226-28, 231, 284, 345
A-889 (19th century)
63, 76
A-939 (18th century)
172
E-15 [Tala masala]
64, 172, 173
H-94 (19th century)
63, 76, 142n, 144
H-457 [St’rolabis sasc’avlebeli c’igni]
64, 167n, 172, 283n
H-503 [Saet’lo da Samtvario]
5, 62n, 64, 76, 151-54, 161, 181-90, 192, 194, 195n, 196n, 205-06, 210, 219, 223-30, 232, 235-37, 240-41, 243-45, 246, 249-51, 263, 269, 271, 273, 284-85, 294, 301, 330, 332, 336, 344, 346-61, 362, 364, 415
H-1235 (1817)
63, 76, 142n, 143-44, 186n, 273-75, 353
H-1283 (18th century)
355, 357
H-1656 (ca. 1730/50)
63, 67, 74, 75, 96, 133, 142-43, 145-47
K-598 (1768)
63, 76, 113, 142n, 143, 144
Q-867 [Saet’lo Xiromant’ia] (ca. 1680)
5, 63, 67, 74-75, 77-147, 164n, 166n, 175n, 178, 179, 192, 206, 218n, 219, 222n, 223-28, 232-35, 244, 273, 331, 339-40, 341, 362-63, 392, front cover
Q-884 [Targmani da gamocxadebani]
5, 64, 83n, 164-65n, 166, 172-79, 353-54, 362-63
Q-1493 [Mask’vlavebis c’igni]
64, 172, 342
S-161 [Ziji varsk’lavta k’at’alogi]
64, 167n, 172
S-5237 [Mecniereba mzisa da mtovarisa dašetq’uyba] (1864)
14n, 64, 153, 155, 193-201, 284-85, 294-95, 298-301, 305-06, 310-13, 336, 362-63
10/2009 (ca. 1750)
63, 75-76, 96, 142n, 143, 145-47
Astrological manuscripts, Persian
Tbilisi P-31 [Sparsuli aiati]
171
Tbilisi P-534 [Zobdet al-Hayat]
171n
Astrological texts, Georgian passim
Astrology passim
Astrology and astronomy
4-5, 16, 45, 63-64, 164, 169, 171, 247, 342, 392
Astrometeorology
6, 12, 20, 34, 53, 63, 78, 102-03, 132, 150n, 151-54, 183, 188, 193-95, 199, 220, 284-313, 314, 332, 336, 363, 392, 394, 398, 405
Astronomical Diaries
288
Astronomical portents
52, 58-59
Astronomy
4-5, 9, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 45, 53, 56-57, 61n, 63-64, 67, 69-70, 71, 90, 108, 121, 164, 166, 167, 169, 171-73, 213, 221n, 222, 232, 247, 251, 256, 259n, 282n, 286-88, 290, 305, 338, 357n, 392, 393, 397, 407, 410n, 412
Athanasius, St.
174
Augury
35, 36, 156, 157, 392-93, 398, 408
Augustine of Hippo, St.
114, 174, 241
Aulus Gellius
208n, 210
Auspices
5, 36, 393, 398
Autolycus
293, 401
Avar language
2
Avestan language
280
Ayanāṃsa
12n, 393, 413-14
Azerbaijan
57, 169, 320n
Azeri language
2
Bābur
249-50, 261
Babylonian astrology
8-10, 11n, 40, 41, 53, 142, 151, 155, 159, 170n, 207, 241, 256, 261n, 286, 288-89, 301, 395, 402, 404, 405, 407, 408, 410n, 413
Baghdad
12-13, 16
Bagratid dynasty
173, 270, 354
Bagrationi, Davit
223, 330
Bakar, Prince
28
Balkars
47n, 161n
Barbara, St.
329
Basil the Great, St.
335-36
Bassus, Cassianus
14n, 213, 307
Bathing
14, 219, 242, 244, 318
Bat’onebi
328, 331
Baumeister, Christian Friedrich
74, 180
Bede
243, 318
Bekovich-Cherkassky, Alexander [Devlet Girei-Mirza]
28
Beltrano, Ottavio
25, 61n, 67-69, 72-73, 79, 81, 91-92, 96, 98-100, 103, 106-08, 113-19, 121-25, 128-29, 131-33, 135-39, 141-42, 146-47, 164-65, 221-22n, 224, 233, 303, 348, 423, 429
Benedict XIV, Pope
25
Benefics
125, 128, 394
Benincasa, Rutilio
68, 69-73, 92-93, 96, 99, 100-01, 103, 108, 114, 116, 117n, 133, 137-38, 175, 179, 303n, 340, 418-20, 423n
Besik’i (Besarion Zakarias dze Gabashvili)
60, 165n
Biblical events
135, 184, 187, 212, 217, 220-21, 230, 235, 346, 348-53
Bibliomancy
49, 223, 354-55, 357-58, 394, 398
al-Birjandī
283
Birthmarks
185, 190, 211n, 217-19, 220, 229-30
Birthday books
18n
al-Bīrūnī
13
Bishops
17, 28, 183, 188, 334, 357, 358-61, 362, 364, 394
Black Sea
117, 331, 360n, 407
Blake, William
275, 280n
Bonatus, Guido
191
Bonaventura, St.
102, 347
Book of Andronicus the Sage
353
Book of Bābā the Harranian
13n
Boötes
118, 164
Botany
6, 293, 320
Brahe, Tycho
281n
Brontologia
6, 15, 148-50, 154-62, 207n, 236-38, 245, 264, 284, 394, 395, 409
Bruce, Jacob
305
Bruno, Giordano
222
Buddhism
19n, 46, 256, 414
Bulls
49, 51n, 226, 233, 280, 324-25, 329, 343
Bulgarian texts
159
Bülow, Nicolaus
304
Bundahishn
12, 280
al-Būnī
15
Buzurjmihr
13n
Byzantine astrology
8, 15, 53, 63-64, 148, 154, 155, 156, 159, 162, 207n, 208n, 218, 223, 237-38, 240, 243, 259-61, 270, 297, 334-36, 348-50, 396, 415
Caduceus
188, 358, 394
Caesarius of Arles
160n
Cain and Abel
205, 220, 243n, 349
Calendar
33-34, 45, 55, 60-61, 213, 241, 242n, 357
Calendologia
10, 40, 53, 63, 159, 261, 287n, 296n, 301-02, 392, 394, 395, 409
Calendrical literature
4-6, 46, 63, 266, 347, 357, 363
Campanella, Tommaso
72
Campestrius [Campester]
278
Cancer
39, 94-95, 122, 128, 136, 260, 299, 410, 415, 428, 443
Capricorn
39, 131, 190-92, 260, 415, 418n
Capuchins
25, 73, 166, 176, 336-37, 363-64
Caput Medusae
116n, 276n
Caracalla
11
Cardanus, Hieronymus
17
Cartomancy
5, 394, 398
Caspian Sea
2, 26, 270, 320n, 414n
Catarchic astrology [elections; agenda]
8, 124, 133, 150, 205-06, 207n, 215-16, 218, 219n, 220-21, 223-25, 233, 235, 243n, 244-45, 259, 304, 318, 336, 347, 394, 402, 405
Catoptromancy
31, 36, 45, 125, 394-95, 397, 398, 402, 403, 413
Cat’s Eyes
42
Caucasian Albania
320n
Caucasian languages
1, 29n, 254
Caucasus passim
Censorinus
264, 338
Center of the earth
83n, 84, 86, 91-92, 174-75, 340, 406, 417
Central Asia
2, 43, 254-56, 400
Ceratologia
35, 40, 153n, 207n, 295-98, 395
Celestial circles
176
Celestial equator
115n, 395, 397, 400, 412
Celestial spheres
15, 32, 59-60, 73, 78-79, 85, 87, 91-92, 106, 112-14, 133, 164n, 174-76, 178-79, 232, 261, 264, 267-68, 273, 280, 282-83, 339-40, 398, 399, 411
Chalcidius
338
Chaldaean order
15, 114, 118, 136-37, 409
Chaldaean terms
416
Chaldaeans
10, 135, 264, 395
Chandravākyās
12n
Chardin, Jean
24, 28, 49, 73-74, 219, 243-45, 247-52, 261, 266, 268, 270, 282n, 337
Charles VI
166
Charles XII
104, 170-71n
Charms
34, 328-29, 331, 344
Chechen language
40-41
Chechens
19, 35-42, 44, 45, 47, 268-70, 299, 324, 329, 391, 413
Chigir
253, 263-64, 395
China
29n, 254-57, 338, 401, 413, 414
Chinese astrology
18-20, 46, 166, 246, 255-59, 264-67, 271, 399, 402, 404
Chiromancy
6, 43, 75, 78, 83-84, 96-100, 102, 339, 391-92, 396, 399, 409
Chorographia
191-92, 396
Chrematistic days
225n, 240-41, 396
Christianity and astrology
15, 17-18, 41, 49, 64, 167, 212, 336, 339-54, 357
Chronicon [koronik’oni]
60-61, 125, 129, 131, 303-04
Chronocrasis
10, 20, 396, 397
Chronocrators
12, 396
Church Slavonic texts
155, 159, 238, 244, 263, 268, 348, 360
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
5, 9n, 52, 238, 399n
C’igni Saakimoy
330
Circassians [Adyge]
23, 24, 31n, 32-35, 41, 47n, 52n, 161n, 322-23, 337
Circassian astrology [vaghwaplhe]
34-35, 41, 296-97
Circular scale
15
Circumpolar constellations
19, 54, 96, 279
Christian clergy
49, 75, 205, 346, 354-55, 357-61, 394
Cleromancy
5, 36n, 157, 396, 398
Climes
95, 117, 396
Clockwise
20, 112, 116n, 129, 246, 249, 251, 273, 413, 415, 417
Clodius Tuscus
291
Cocles, Bartolommeo della Rocca
102
Codex Vakhtangi [Dast’urlama]
344
Colors
14, 18, 20, 26, 34, 41, 43, 50, 53, 60n, 93-95, 101, 103, 105-06, 125, 151-53, 157, 161, 188, 190, 192-93, 197, 210, 242, 257, 258, 266, 269n, 271, 278n, 280, 285-86, 288, 294-99, 305-06, 308-10, 312-13, 316, 319, 320, 326, 328-29, 330-31, 335, 343-44, 358, 402, 416
Columbus
135-36
Columella, Lucius Junius
208-10, 243, 291
Cometologia
183, 186, 189, 190, 273-78, 353, 396
Comets
31, 42, 103, 135-36, 138-39, 142, 175, 177, 186, 248, 273-83, 293, 353, 396, 405
Computers
6, 121
Computus literature
46, 217, 338, 345, 396, 401
Constantine the Great
11, 334
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
162, 307
Constantinople
15, 28, 60n
Constantius II (emperor)
11, 334
Constellations
11, 19, 37, 41, 54, 67, 96, 107, 108, 118-19, 125n, 142, 164, 172, 199, 250-52, 259, 263n, 267-68, 276, 279, 299, 325, 395n, 399
Copernicus
5, 166
Coppaj
161-62n
Corinthians, Epistles to the
83, 114, 339
Cornelius Labeo
301
Cosmograms
5, 6, 14n, 54-55, 73, 79, 112, 113, 142n, 143, 174
Cosmographers
86, 92
Cosmology
32, 39, 44, 57, 78, 91n, 114, 157n, 173, 175
Counter-clockwise
116n, 249, 261, 343, 397, 403, 404, 413, 415, 417
Counter-Jupiter [t’ai-sui]
19, 246, 402
Counting stars
35, 41
Crescent moon
35, 54, 128, 138, 153, 187, 213, 231, 289, 297, 343, 402
Crimean Khanate
26-27n
Crimean Tatars
26-27n, 47n, 104n
Crinas of Massilia
315
Critical years
184-85, 190, 192, 220-21
Cromlechs
34
Cross [jvari]
51n, 58-59, 98, 101-02, 161, 185-86, 276n, 346-47, 349, 354
Cultural transmission
4, 17, 29, 74, 166, 255-57, 265, 269-72, 305, 363, 414
Cumans
266n
Cursa [β Eridani]
291
Crystalline sphere
112, 114, 174-75, 261
Daghestan
31, 38, 43-44, 47, 209n, 275, 324-25, 364, 395, 416
Daghestani astrology
31, 38, 43-44, 47, 364
Daily motion tables
9
Damascius
8n
Dark of the moon
11, 211, 295
David
83, 86, 98, 102, 104, 135, 159, 339, 341
David IV Aghmashenebeli
329
David VIII
276
Days of the moon
10, 11, 79, 82, 105, 106, 135, 155, 159, 161-62, 183-84, 186-87, 190, 205-07, 208n, 210-33, 235-41, 244-45, 246, 249, 251, 258, 262, 271-73, 289, 295-98, 314, 316, 318, 332, 335, 345-46, 348-51, 355-57, 395, 396, 400, 402, 404, 415
Days of the week
40-41, 61, 71, 118, 159, 162, 165n, 192, 242, 303, 397, 398, 409
Dead Sea Scrolls
156
Death-houses
327
Decads
246, 257, 271-72, 397
Decanates
246, 271-72, 316-17, 397, 400, 403
Declination
40, 397, 412, 414, 415
Decumbiture
206, 215-16, 218-21, 223, 228, 230, 235, 242, 315, 397
Defenses of Astrology
15, 17-18, 336, 339-42
Dejections
114
Democritus
124, 212, 265, 415
Demophilus
334
Demons
165, 248, 279, 305, 316, 323, 328, 331, 351-52
Deneb [α Cygni]
58
Dēnkard
12
Derbent
28, 325
Detrimenta
114
Didache
333
Dies Aegyptiaci
16, 241-42, 392, 400, 401
Dies caniculares
242, 394
Dies decretorii
242, 314-16, 397, 403
Dies fasti & nefasti
242
Digits [punti, titi]
108-09, 112
Dimensions of celestial spheres
73, 85-90, 91-92, 113-14, 164n, 175
Diodorus Siculus
9n, 319
Dionysian cycle [28-year cycle; Julian cycle]
61, 71, 81, 98, 123-25, 129-31, 138, 146, 165, 303-04, 397, 419n
Dionysius Exiguus
61n, 71, 303, 397
Dionysius bar Salibi
13n
Directionality
46, 258-59, 271
Diurnal revolution
267
Divination
4-10, 16, 18n, 19, 30-32, 34-36, 40-44, 47-48, 49-50, 53, 64, 74, 128, 148, 150-51, 154-57, 159, 184, 196, 205, 206, 207n, 211n, 238, 239, 247, 256, 257, 264, 286, 296, 301, 302, 305, 324, 333-34, 343-45, 354-58, 391-417
Dodecaeteris
19, 46, 166, 264-67, 271, 399
Dodecatemoria
10, 282, 399
Domicile
115n, 123, 134
Dominical letter
165, 398, 418
Domitian
11, 12n
Dorotheus of Sidon
256, 315, 403
Draco
96, 108, 142, 259, 297, 399, 410
Draco coelestis
62, 108, 114, 123, 278-80, 283, 399, 402, 407
Draconic astrology
278-80, 399
Dragon
32, 39, 96, 102, 108, 279-81, 283, 407
Dreams
5, 43, 162, 184, 187, 196, 205-06, 207n, 216-21, 225-26, 228-30, 235, 237-41, 396, 403, 407, 411
Earth
15, 32, 38, 42, 57n, 59, 82-89, 91-92, 174-75, 178, 230, 246, 249-52, 260, 263, 281, 284, 285, 294, 335, 340, 395, 398, 399, 403, 405, 406, 408, 409, 410, 417
Earth’s axis
32, 410
Earthquakes
36, 38n, 56n, 136, 149-50, 151, 154, 158n, 161-62, 207n, 225, 229-30, 260, 413
East Iranians
19, 255, 270
Eastern Europe
31, 255, 266n, 357n, 400, 415
Eastern Orthodoxy
27, 45, 188, 304, 326, 335-36, 358-61, 394
Echmiadzin
46
Eclipse Omina
150-51, 284
Eclipses
35, 39, 62, 67, 79, 92, 107-11, 138n, 148-51, 276, 278-80, 283, 284-85, 345-46, 358, 399, 405, 406, 420n, front cover
Eleven
73, 91, 112, 222, 246, 276n, 278n, 314, 354, 396, 400, 445
Ecliptic
39, 108, 213, 221, 222n, 232, 246, 271, 272, 278, 279, 281, 391, 395, 397, 398, 399, 400, 402, 403, 404, 406, 407, 412, 414, 417
Edges of the moon
35, 103
Egypt
211, 218, 238, 272, 290, 391, 394, 405, 409
Egyptian astrology
16, 123n, 151, 207, 210-11, 240-42, 246, 271-72, 291, 296, 315, 317, 392, 397, 400, 401, 416
Eight stars
247-51, 268, 395, 415
Eighth sphere
261, 264, 268, 399
Elemental spheres
15, 86-87, 92, 112, 114, 174-75, 273, 340
Elijah
160
Emin, Joseph
29
Empyrean heaven
112, 174n, 175-77
England
18n, 28, 123n, 134, 218
I Enoch
231n, 351
Enuma Anu Enlil series
8
Enuma Elish
8
Epact of the moon [Epacta lunae]
98, 345-46, 400, 418
Epactologia
148, 345-46, 400
Ephemerides
8, 10, 70, 119, 121-22, 281, 400, 405, 416
Ephesians, Epistle to the
83, 339
Ephod [eputi]
49, 182, 205, 223, 225-26, 228-31, 235-36, 355-58
Epidemic disease
35, 154, 324-27, 329, 405
Equinoxes
34, 55, 116, 177, 261n, 282n, 292, 301, 316, 325, 345, 393, 400, 403, 410, 412
Erek’le I of K’akheti
25
Erek’le II of K’akheti-Kartli
26-28, 74, 271, 361n
Erra Pater
303
Erzurum
117, 134
Essential dignities
123, 125n, 144
Ethiopia
154, 191
Étoile octaèdre
268-69
Etruscan brontoscopy
15n, 53, 156-59, 160n
Etruscans
15n, 53, 156-59, 160n, 276n, 400
Euthymius the Hagiorite, St.
148
Evening stars
44, 413
Evil eye
33, 329, 344
Evliya Çelebi
28
Exaltations
114, 123, 222, 280, 397, 400
Exodus
272, 355n
Extipicy
5, 399, 400, 401
Ezekiel
343, 393
Far East
2, 8, 18-20, 166, 223, 252, 255-71, 363, 399
Favomancy
30-31, 34, 399, 400
Feral signs
115
Festus, Sextus Pompeius
160n
Fevers
50, 242, 314, 331
Firmicus Maternus
17, 271n, 405
Fixed stars
16, 32, 35, 41, 53, 54, 58, 63, 79, 112-14, 116n, 118, 142, 174-75, 261, 267, 280, 287, 289-90, 292-93, 299, 407-11, 413, 417
Focht, Johann Heinrich
305
Folklore 32n
33, 44, 57-58, 268-69, 280, 328, 352
Fortune-tellers
10, 18n, 31, 34, 36, 37, 50, 240n, 325, 333, 344, 358, 415
Fra Rainaldo
166, 363
Fractals
6, 354
France
28, 101, 164, 268
Franklin, Benjamin
303
Frogs
293, 324
Fugitives
212, 218-21, 225, 227, 229-30, 235, 237
Full moon
10, 11, 57, 187, 210, 231, 286-87, 295, 351n, 399, 406, 416
Gabashvili, Besarion
28
Gabashvili, T’imote
28
Gabriel (angel)
184, 343, 349-50
Gadbury, John
342
Galen
242, 315-16, 321, 330, 403
Galileo
90-91, 103, 105
Galken, Paul
305
Ganja
134
Gargilius Martialis
208
Garlic
326
Gauls
156, 322
Gauricus. Lucas
17
Gelati
60n, 329, 360-61
Gematria
37
Gemini
116n, 136, 156, 192, 280, 332
Geminus of Rhodes
291
Genadii, Archbishop of Novgorod
357n
Gender-reversal
30, 51-52
General lunaria
161, 205, 211-12, 215-20, 223-24, 227n, 235, 238, 244, 245, 262-63, 318
Genesis
18, 98, 351
Genethlialogical astrology
8, 10, 37, 44, 70, 83, 84, 94, 136, 150, 184, 186n, 190-92, 205-07, 216-18, 220-21, 225-26, 228, 230, 235-37, 242n, 332, 336, 347, 396, 397, 400, 401, 412
Geocentrism
5, 167, 263
Geography
1-2, 25, 154, 169, 179, 396, 401
Geomancy [‘ilm al-raml]
16, 19, 47-48, 102n, 392, 398, 401, 425n
Geometric-cinematic models
9
Geometry
6, 8, 16, 54, 167, 169, 176, 341n, 398, 412
Geoponica
14n, 208n, 209, 213, 261, 265, 291, 300n, 301, 305, 307, 309, 311, 312, 313, 362-63
George, St.
49, 57, 161
Georgia [Sakartvelo] passim
Georgian Beltrano Text
45-46, 63, 67, 72-147, 164n, 166n, 178, 275, 330n, 331, 339-40
Georgian Beltrano Text, Urtext (ca. 1660)
75, 76n, 363
Georgian émigrés
25-26, 28, 74, 143
Georgian language
4, 16, 40-41, 51, 52n, 59-60, 61n, 62n, 92, 93-96, 98n, 103, 108, 112, 115n, 116, 118, 128, 134, 152n, 164-65, 167-68, 173-78, 181-82, 184, 193-94, 205n, 233-34, 264, 270, 286, 299, 328, 337, 341, 357n
Georgian Silver Age
23-25, 29, 73-74
Germany
18n, 244, 302n, 305n
Giorgi III
56n
Giorgi XI of Kartli
25, 27n, 178n
Giorgi XII of K’akheti-Kartli
27
Giorgi Mtatsmindeli, St.
346
Girk‘ Vastakoc‘
152n, 153n, 307, 309-11
Globalization
4, 363
Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb
28, 325
Goal Year method
9
Gôčihr
280-81, 402
God
32, 59, 83, 98, 102-03, 109, 174, 184, 186, 230, 242n, 251-52, 333, 341-42, 349-50, 351-52, 353
Golden number
140, 401, 418
Gooseflesh
243
Gori
360
Great Comet of 1811 [Napoleon’s Comet]
275, 280n
Great Conjunction (Jupiter and Saturn)
12, 62, 138n
Greek language
40, 164, 177, 194, 197, 286
Gregorian calendar
345, 400, 419n
Gregory Nazianzus, St.
102, 114
Gregory the Illuminator, St.
134
Güldenstadt, Johan Anton
28-29, 322
Guramishvili, Davit
28
Guria
27, 47n, 182, 194, 286n, 327, 336, 357
Gutenberg
135
Hacob Ghrimets‘i
45
Hadji Isḥak Efendi
31n
Hail
103, 105-06, 124, 155, 161, 209, 284-85, 294
Halley’s Comet
138n, 176
Haloes
150, 151-53, 154, 284, 286, 288, 293-95, 298, 306, 310-11, 313, 335, 358n, 401
Haloölogia
150, 151-53
Hands
42, 50, 75, 78, 83-84, 96-100, 102, 125, 157, 173, 186, 190, 200, 209, 229, 230, 249, 253, 339, 351-52, 358, 392, 396
Harranians
383, 406, 410, 412
Harranian (Sabian) astrology
8, 13-15, 128
Hārūn al-Rashīd
15
Haruspicy
156-57, 399, 401, 402
Hazards
190, 332, 394
Hearth chain
32, 42
Heliacal rising
12, 63, 261, 266, 287, 289, 292-93, 301, 316, 394, 401, 404, 408-09
Heliacal setting
289, 316, 401, 408-09
Heliocentrism
5
Heliogabalus
11
Hell
83-85, 91-93, 175-76, 340, 350
Hellenistic astrology
8, 10-11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 53, 64, 154, 156, 158, 159, 164, 191, 196n, 198, 207n, 217n, 218, 225n, 241, 242, 256, 272, 276, 277, 289, 302, 315, 338, 394, 396, 397, 399, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 408, 409, 412, 413
Hemerologia
10, 241-42, 256, 401
Hepatoscopy
36n, 393, 399, 402
Hephaestio Thebanus
151, 240-41, 242, 271n, 277, 287, 296, 396
Heraclitus
221n
Heraclius (Emperor)
59, 159
Herbal medicine
63, 315-17, 319-20, 324-25, 326, 329, 332, 363
Hermes Trismegistus
59, 317
Herodotus
207, 272
Hesiod
7, 206-08, 210-11, 221, 236, 241, 244, 246, 272, 289-90, 314
Heydon, Sir Christopher
17
Hipparchus
291, 410
Hippocrates
242, 292, 314, 316, 319
Hittite texts
40n, 288, 297
Honey
149, 324, 345, 346
Honorius (emperor)
334
Horizon
38n, 39, 53, 157n, 176, 288, 397, 398, 408, 412
Horns of the moon
35, 40, 187, 231, 286, 293, 295-98, 343, 395, 402
Horoscopes
10, 35-36, 47-48, 80, 119-21, 173, 198, 256, 317, 338, 391-93, 395, 398, 401, 402, 403, 411, 412, 416, 419n
House-division
119
Hovhannes Sarkavag Imastaser [John the Deacon]
45
Hovhannes Yerzynkats‘i
45n
Human signs
116
Humors
116, 316, 417
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq
239
Hungary
302n
Hurrian texts
288
Hyalomancy
36, 402, 413
Hypsomatic degrees
10, 222n, 402
Ibn al-‘Adīm
13n
Ibn Nawbakht
13
Ibn Waḥshiyya [Abenvasia]
10, 306-07, 406
Iese of Kartli [‘Ali Quli Khan]
171
Illustrations
73, 75-77, 78-82, 98, 107-08, 124-28, 138, 142-44, 169, 171, 174, 181, 184-89, 194, 197, 231, 278, 320, 330n, 346, 353-54, 358-60, 362
Imereti
23, 24, 26-28, 104, 117, 134, 182, 194, 336, 357, 360-61
Immanuel Bonfils
357n
Imprisonment
219, 428, 434
Incubation
35, 403, 407
Index librorum prohibitorum
68
India
10-12, 16, 26, 149, 191, 251-52, 254, 349, 352-53, 362, 404, 405
Indian astrology
8, 10, 11-12, 15, 16, 18, 46, 132, 198, 251-52, 255-56, 258, 269, 279, 281, 302, 348n, 396, 399, 402, 404, 405, 406, 413
Infernal spheres
84-85, 114, 175-76
Ingresses
39, 119-22, 125n, 138, 141-42, 403, 419n
Ingush
38, 161, 269
Ingush Wind-Star [mix-sedq’a]
269-70
Innocent III, Pope
106
Innocent XI, Pope
25
Inoculation
322-23
Intercepted signs
119
Interplanetary aspects
35, 74, 80-81, 116-17, 124, 132-33, 143, 151, 232, 302-03, 391, 398, 407, 408, 412, 413, 415, 416, 417, 420
Interrogational astrology
8, 20, 31n, 70, 150, 205-06, 318, 336, 402, 403
Ioane P’et’ric’i
60n
Ippolitov, Aleksandr Petrovich
31, 36-38, 42-44
Iridologia
150, 153-54, 403
Irukabidze-Cholokashvili, Nikoloz [Nicephorus Irbach]
28, 337
Isaiah
150n, 165, 174
Isfahan
134, 169
Isidore of Seville
338
Islam
2, 13n, 15-17, 31n, 37-38, 43-44, 47-48, 49, 163, 166, 169, 173, 218-19, 237, 255, 270, 302, 342, 353, 391, 394, 402, 405, 411, 414, 415
Islamic clergy
31n, 37-38, 44
Italian collaborator
74, 99, 112, 115n, 116-17, 134, 141, 164, 166, 172-78, 233-34, 339, 362
Italy
28, 67-73, 156, 164, 178
Ivan III
304
Ivan IV ‘the Terrible’
304
Ja‘far al-Hindī [Jafar Indus]
132n, 302
Japanese astrology
256
Jawzahr [draco coelestis]
280, 283
Jerusalem
28, 149, 185n, 276, 288, 349, 354
Jesus Christ
13n, 60, 83, 84-85, 135, 136, 138n, 185-86, 190, 243n, 288, 293, 329, 334-35, 343, 346, 349-50, 352-53, 362, 404
Jewish astrology
13, 15, 153, 266, 272, 276n, 357n
Job
83, 84, 175, 236, 339, 349, 396
Johannes de Galonifontibus
33
Johannes Laurentius Lydus
148, 154, 158, 277, 291, 296, 301
John, Gospel of
114, 174, 185, 346, 351
John the Baptist, St.
137, 346-47, 350
John III, Pope
18
John Italus
60n
Josephus
276
Journeys
8, 94, 205, 219, 225-28, 244, 258, 262-63, 328, 335, 351, 415
Jubilees
53n
Judas Iscariot
137, 183, 243n, 349-50, 396
Julian the Apostate
102
Julian II, Pope
18
Julian calendar
45, 60, 71, 282, 345, 400
Julius Caesar
291b
Junctinus
17
Jung, Carl
6
Jude, Epistle of
351
Jupiter
12, 19, 46, 60, 62, 89, 90, 129-30, 132, 134, 138n, 156, 158, 197, 199, 226, 233, 264-65, 282, 393, 394, 396, 399, 404, 406, 409
Justin
276
Ka‘aba
16
Kabardins
24, 28, 29n, 31n, 33n
Kadagebi [Georgian shamans]
51n
Kaïd
248, 281-83, 402
Kaikhosro of Kartli
25, 171
K’akheti
23-26, 28, 52, 56, 57, 117, 134, 152n, 182, 194n, 209n, 336, 337n, 360
Kalmyk astrology
46-47
Kalmyks
46-47, 271
Kankah al-Hindī [Kankaf Indus]
12
Karachay
31n, 47n, 161n
Karakhanid dynasty
19n, 270
Kartli
23, 45-26, 27n, 56, 57, 59, 60, 117, 163, 166, 171, 178n, 182, 194n, 336, 360
Kartlis Cxovreba
52, 59, 60, 267, 276-77
Kazi-Kumukh
2
Khevsureti
165n, 319, 327
Khiva
28
Khlateli [Fakhr ad-Dīn Ikhlatī; Fakhr ad-Dīn al-Maraghī]
56-57
Khorasan
149-50
Khotanese astrology
19n, 251-52, 258, 270-71
al-Khwārizmī
13, 281
al-Kindi
132n, 316, 403
II Kings
393
Kipchaks
266n
Kists
40
Kitāb Sirr al-ḥalīqa
307
Klaproth, Johann Heinrich
29, 31, 161n
Kmnulebis Codnis C’igni
5, 16, 64, 83n, 98n, 167-69, 171, 175n, 245, 339-41
Kuban River
56
Kumyks
2, 325
Kushyār ibn Labbān
13, 256-57
Kutaisi
63, 76, 113, 117, 143, 182, 357n, 360, 363
Lactantius
9n
Lamberti, Archangelo
329
Latin language
16, 17, 28, 83-84, 86, 92, 100, 112, 117, 132, 145, 164, 168, 170, 174-78, 180, 208, 212, 214-18, 233-34, 236, 244, 262-63, 316, 338, 339, 409
Lapis lazuli
2, 414
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
409
Lay astrology (Laienastrologie)
10, 64, 213, 239n, 302, 405, 409
Lecanomancy
5, 395, 398, 402, 403, 413
Lectionary
183, 185, 346-47
Left
99, 101, 108, 125, 138, 157n, 187, 229, 231, 295, 297, 306, 308-10, 354, 358
Left hand
99, 125, 157n, 358
Leo
115, 138, 210, 260, 316
Leo (emperor)
159
Leprosy
192, 331, 332, 349
Lesath [υ Scorpii]
42
Levan II Dadiani of Mingrelia
24
Lezgians
23, 26, 324
Libadenus Trapezuntius, Andreas
265
Libra
58, 136, 400
Life of St. Nino
58
Lifespan prediction
71, 101, 184, 190, 192, 220-21
Lightning
15n, 35, 103, 148-50, 154-61, 207n, 285-86, 291, 293, 300, 306, 308-13, 393, 394, 395, 410
Limbo
84-85, 92, 175, 340
Lithomancy
36, 403, 413
Lost and stolen property
20, 173, 212, 218-20, 226-27, 235, 237
Lots
10, 396, 403-04
Lottery
72
Louis XIV
75, 101, 163
Lucan
160n
Lucifer
165, 174, 196, 253
Luke, Gospel of
340, 341
Luminaries
38, 60, 116, 138, 151-52, 196, 198, 225, 335, 402, 404
Lunar mansions [manāzil]
19, 79, 82, 106, 135, 206, 218, 221-26, 232-35, 243n, 244, 348, 404, 406, 414
Lunar months
10, 16, 43, 61, 135, 161, 190, 205, 208, 210, 222, 224, 226, 227n, 232n, 233, 240, 258, 264n, 265, 272, 273, 296, 318, 348, 395, 396, 400, 415
Lunar nodes
39, 169, 232n, 246, 248, 255-56, 278-80, 283, 299, 399, 400, 402, 407
Lunar Six intervals
9
Lunar maria
35, 44, 103, 340, 404
Lunar phases
103, 210, 222-23, 231, 289, 335, 408
Lunar quarters
106, 140-41, 222, 296, 304
Lunar zodiac
19, 233n, 348n, 404
Lunaria
5, 10, 15, 16, 49, 55, 124, 135, 148, 150, 154, 159, 161-62, 181-90, 205-38, 240, 243-46, 262-63, 269, 271-72, 284, 289, 315, 317-18, 330, 332, 348-51, 356-58, 362-63, 392, 404, 409, 415, 424-46
Georgian lunaria
5, 10, 49, 135, 148, 154, 161, 181-90, 205-06, 223-38, 240, 244-46, 269, 271, 284, 289, 330, 332, 348-53, 356-58, 362-63, 415, 446
Lunaria Svenbergiana
236-37, 439n, 443
Western lunaria, Latin Urtext (7th century AD)
217-18, 236-37
Western lunaria, Hellenistic Urtext (4th century AD)
211, 218
Lunarium antiquum
154
M7 cluster
42, 299
Macrobius
157n, 338
Maghnoev, John (copyist)
76
Magi
12-13, 62n, 69, 72, 305n, 333-34, 342, 343, 349, 393, 400, 404-05
Magic
14, 30, 33-34, 125n, 170n, 173, 210, 218n, 222, 264, 304, 305n, 324-25, 327-28, 331, 334, 344-45, 352, 395n, 397, 405, 416, 417
Magic squares
173, 259
Mâh-i tamîk [dark moon]
246, 280, 283, 402
Maḥmūd al-Kāshgharī
253
Maimonides
209n, 268, 411
Malaria
319n, 326, 331
Malefics
125, 128, 197, 331, 405
Manuel I Comnenus
15, 334
Maragheh observatory
57
Mark, Gospel of
341
Mars
60, 89, 96, 134, 136-37, 138n, 158n, 197, 199, 331, 405, 408-09
Martianus Capella
338
Māshā’allāh
13
al-Mas‘ūdi
1
Mathematical astrology
5, 7-10, 15-18, 19, 64, 213, 222, 239n, 286, 293, 302-03, 402, 405, 408, 410
Matthew, Gospel of
12, 288-89, 294, 334-35, 341n, 342, 404
Mathematics
6, 9n, 16, 19, 72, 117, 165, 171, 173, 231, 247
Mathematici
10, 213, 302, 333
Maximus
315, 403
Mecca
16
Mediaeval (Western) astrology
8, 16-18, 43n, 132n, 150, 162, 182, 190-92, 219-22, 236-37, 240-41, 255-56, 258, 262-64, 271, 279, 297, 302, 315, 340, 348-50, 395, 396, 404, 405, 408, 413, 415, 417
Medical astrology [Iatromathematics]
17, 19n, 106, 187, 192, 215, 216-19, 223, 231-32, 238, 241, 242, 245, 264, 292, 304, 314-20, 330-32, 334, 363, 402, 403, 405, 415
Medical lunaria
106, 187, 216-17, 218, 231-32, 238, 245, 317-18
Medicina Plinii
208
Medicines
226-27, 233, 243-44, 315-18, 324, 326, 332
Mehmed II
167n
Melampus
207, 211-12, 241
Melothesia
191-92, 315, 402, 403, 405
Mercy Seat
340
Mercury
11, 88, 92, 96, 121-22, 197, 199, 278, 295n, 394, 408
Mesopotamia
13, 39, 41, 57, 59, 238, 400, 402, 406, 412
Metascopy
100-01, 405
Meteorological portents
153, 183, 188, 294, 300, 336
Meteors
41, 42, 175, 177, 293, 353, 405
Metonic cycle [19-year cycle; enneadecaeteris]
20n, 61, 82, 138, 14o-42, 146, 303, 401, 405, 420n
Michael (angel)
343, 347
Michael Glycas
15
Migraine
61n, 319n, 331
Mihr-i tamîk [dark sun]
246, 280, 283, 402
Military astrology
20, 271, 405
Mingrelia
24, 27, 49, 73, 117, 134, 161, 182, 301, 329, 336, 337n, 355, 359, 364n
Minor progression
264n, 265
Mirrors
83, 87, 91-92, 103, 125, 127, 175, 209, 339-40, 394-95, 413
Mithridates of Pontus
276, 320-22
Mithridaticum
321
Mob
196-97
Molnar, Michael
12, 404
Mongolia
19, 23, 271, 414n
Mongolian astrology
19, 46, 257-59, 271-72, 401
Montulmo, Antonius de
17
Moon
9, 12n, 13, 15, 32, 35, 38, 39n, 43n, 51, 55, 57, 61-63, 71, 78, 79, 81, 82, 86, 87, 88, 92, 93-96, 103, 105, 108, 119, 122, 133, 137-38, 142, 151-53, 155, 156, 159, 162, 164, 169, 174, 193, 195, 196, 197, 200, 207, 209, 211, 213, 219, 221, 222, 223, 231, 232, 239, 260-62, 264, 266, 267, 273, 278, 279, 281-82, 285-86, 293, 294-96, 301-03, 318, 325, 328, 335-36, 345, 397, 398, 400, 403-04, 405, 407, 411, 413, 414
Moon-worship
57, 63, 239
Moondials
55-56
Moonlight
331
Morinus
17-18
Morning stars
44-45, 53, 57-58, 165, 196, 253, 264, 413
Moscow
26, 28, 104, 170, 179, 304-05
Moses
159, 264, 349-50, 411
Mtavarangelozis T’adzari [Church of the Archangel], Ik’orta
56
Mtskheta
3, 56, 59, 164, 320, 343
Mukhranian viceroys of Kartli
24
MUL.APIN series
9, 41
Mundane astrology
8, 12, 53, 62-63, 71, 119n, 123, 150, 151, 156, 159, 161, 188, 195, 265, 276, 284, 396, 404-05
Mundane houses
8, 80, 115, 117, 119, 122-23, 136, 167, 169, 173, 239n, 265, 341n, 391, 396, 397, 402, 403, 405, 406, 411-12, 416
Eighth house
136
Ninth house
239n
Twelfth house
173
Mûšparîk
248, 280-81, 283, 402
Nabataean Agriculture [Filāḥah al-Nabāṭiyyah]
13-14, 209n, 231n, 268, 305-09, 311, 313n, 353-54, 362
Nāder Shāh
26, 275-76
Naibod, Valentin
17
Nakṣatras
255, 348n, 404, 406
Naples
68-69, 72, 117, 134
Napoleon
275
Narikala fortress
56
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
57, 167n, 169, 172, 252-53, 282n, 283
Navigation
64, 70, 72
Necromancy
33, 218n, 399, 406
Near East
1, 2, 10, 31, 59, 62n, 194, 208n, 255, 261, 344, 363, 404, 405
Nek’resi Fire Temple
56
Neoplatonism
13, 60n, 412
Nephrite (jade)
2, 414
Nero
11
New moon
10, 55, 106, 128, 213, 222, 266, 328, 351n, 396, 399, 402, 404, 406, 416
New World
136
Newton, Sir Isaac
18, 170n, 391
Nigidius Figulus, Publius
158
Nikoloz VII Kherkheulidze (Catholicos)
25
Nino, St.
58-59, 326, 343
Non-Euclidean geometries
6
Normal stars (Babylonian)
142, 407
Norman Conquest
276
North Caucasus
2, 27n, 31n, 33n, 43, 44, 45, 47, 51-52, 160, 319, 323, 364, 400, 414n
North Celestial Pole
32, 54, 176-77, 397, 399
North Ecliptic Pole
32, 279, 399
Northeast Caucasus
43, 47n
Northwest Caucasus
47n, 51-52, 400
Nostradamus
17
Notovitch, Nicholas
352
Numerology
19, 37, 54, 259, 316
Oaths
30, 46n, 225, 227, 323
Observatories
16, 56, 57, 63, 305
Occultation
12, 404, 406, 407
Occultism
14n, 60n, 218n, 272, 352
Octagonal diagram
269
Odishi
117
Odyssey
56n
Olaus Magnus
152, 297-98
Old Farmer’s Almanac
303
Old Uyghur astrology
19, 29n, 253-55, 258-59, 261, 266-67, 269-72, 362, 395, 402, 415
Omar Tiberiades
13
Obsequens, Julius
156
Omens
5, 34, 150-51, 156, 159, 162, 211n, 277, 284, 287-88, 392, 393, 407, 410
One-hundred-forty-eight
248, 281-82, 402, 427
Oneiromancy [dream divination]
36n, 43, 399, 407
Onirocritica
211n, 238-39, 407
Ornithomancy
36n, 392, 408
Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba
25, 28, 60, 64, 153, 163-66, 167
Origen
351, 410
Orion
119, 131, 164, 263n, 266, 290
Orpheus
207
Ossetians
44-45, 47n, 56n, 160
Ossetian astrology
44-45
Ottoman empire
16, 23, 26-27, 31n, 47, 104, 167, 360
Owls
325
Paat’a
28
Pagan gods
5, 8, 30, 35, 38n, 41, 44, 52n, 57, 158, 160, 207, 212, 289, 314, 348, 410
Paganism
13, 14n, 31n, 40-41, 47n, 49, 50, 54, 57, 63, 199, 212, 306, 328, 338, 343, 348, 349, 351, 394, 407
Pahlavi language
280
Palermo
69, 117
Palladius
208, 210, 291
Panaskerteli-Tsitsishvili, Zaza
50, 330-31
Paolini, Stephano
337
Paradise
112, 230, 349, 351-52
Parapegmata
58, 290-92, 301, 314, 405, 408
Parhelia [sun dogs; mock suns]
293, 335, 408
Pars fortunae
122, 403-04
Partridge, John
192
Paul, Apostle
83, 114, 347
Paul III, Pope
18
Paulus Aegineta
316-17, 321n, 329
Pediscopy
101
Pentads
271-73
Persia
1, 23-24, 25-27, 31, 43, 47, 116, 118, 166, 169, 173, 249, 270, 273, 275, 277, 325, 394, 395
Persian (Islamic) astrology
4, 13, 15, 16, 23, 167-68, 171, 218-19, 242, 244-45, 247-49, 250, 252-53, 256-57, 266, 270, 280-81, 283, 341
Persian (Sassanian) astrology
8, 12-13, 16, 62, 239, 246, 256, 279-81, 399, 400, 402, 404-05, 406, 413
Persian language
4, 62n, 173, 244, 250, 354
Personal stars
35, 41
Pestilence
8, 151, 159
Peter the Great
25-26, 28, 104, 170, 305
Petrus de Abano
316
Phalangia
320n
Phasis River
56
Philosophers
45, 59, 60n, 67, 78, 83, 86, 87, 90-91, 94, 98, 101-03, 105, 124, 136, 187, 196n, 212, 221n, 224, 268, 316, 334, 341
Philosophy
11, 14, 16-17, 61, 90-91, 167, 247, 280, 341-42, 391
Phlebotomy
133, 187, 205-06, 216, 218-21, 223-27, 230-31, 235, 237-38, 242-45, 304, 317-18, 329-30, 332, 392, 409
Phrenology
72, 409
Physiognomonica
100, 409
Physiognomy
6, 72, 99-102, 211n, 264, 396, 405, 409
Picatrix
14n, 221
Pisces
119, 134, 185, 417
Pius V (pope)
70n
Plague
31n, 207, 327, 329, 331
Planetary affinities
94-97, 128
Planetary cycles
12, 19, 59-60, 164n, 195, 199, 282, 396
Planetary dimensions
86-92, 113-14, 164
Planetary glyphs
96, 98, 114, 143, 187, 193, 196n, 197, 225
Planetary hours
118
Planetary orders
114, 118, 136, 198-99, 232, 409
Chaldaean order
15, 114, 118, 136-37, 409
Hebdomadal order
409
Hellenistic order
198
Indian order
198
Planetary phases
408-09
Planetary rulership
116, 125, 129, 137, 151, 206, 234-35, 273, 400
Planetary sect
62, 115n, 413
Planets
15, 57, 59-60, 62, 64, 87-90, 92, 93, 94-95, 96, 98-99, 112-15, 122, 123, 133, 136-37, 174-75, 184, 193, 195-99, 232, 273, 295n, 392, 397, 398, 400, 402, 408-09, 412, 413, 415, 416
Plato
16, 410
Pleiades
7, 58, 179, 249-50, 290, 292, 293n, 316, 407
Pliny the Elder
1, 9n, 152, 157-58, 208, 212, 243, 276n, 287, 296, 299n, 300, 312n, 315, 320-21
Plutarch, Lucius Mestrius
108n, 208n, 210, 320n, 321, 340n
Porcius Cato, Marcus
10, 11, 208
Poisons
116n, 158, 221, 229, 277, 295n, 316n, 319-22, 332, 344
Poland
302n
Pole
80, 117, 119
Pole Star
259n, 399, 410
Polemo
409
Pompey the Great
320n
Poor Richard’s Almanack
72, 303
Possession
30, 52, 323, 417
Praesepe [Manger; Beehive-Cluster]
299
Prague
90, 91
Prayers
16, 33, 50, 51, 54-55, 62, 102, 148, 150, 161, 231n, 236, 323, 326, 328, 338, 347n, 350
Precession
12n, 221, 399, 404, 410, 412, 417
Primary motion
398
Primary direction
10, 398, 410
Primum mobile
112-14, 174-75, 267
Printing
74, 104, 135, 303
Prince of the Dead
323
Proclus
60n, 241
Profection
10, 397, 398n, 399, 410
Πρὸς Τάτ
272
Proserpina
93, 95n
Psalms
18, 92, 98n, 101, 104, 145, 339-41
Psellus, Michael
60n
Pseudo-Aristotle, De Mundo
267
Ptolemaic cosmology
5, 32
Ptolemy, Claudius
16, 17, 32, 42, 53, 119, 132, 137n, 142, 151, 152, 153, 191, 222, 273, 277, 287, 290-91, 296, 299, 301-03, 315, 392, 396, 398, 403, 405, 416
Purgatory
84-85, 175, 340
Pyromancy
36n, 398, 411, 413
Qibla
16
Quadrupedal signs
115
Qualitates [Modalities]
115
Quantum physics
6
Quinances
272
Quinaries
272
The Quintilii
291
Q’ulič’anat, Mose Ant’onasšvili
181, 183, 185-86, 364
Rabbit meat
243
Rainbows
103, 148-50, 153-54, 196n, 284-85, 288, 293, 323, 332, 335, 403
Ramesey, William
17
Raphael (angel)
230, 350-52
al-Rāzī [Rhazes]
170
Regiomontanus
119
Renaissance
17, 315, 321
Reptiles
158, 320
Retrograde motion
19, 39, 248, 252, 278, 280-83, 398, 402, 406, 410, 412, 415
Revelation
150n, 343
Right
95-97, 99, 101, 102, 138, 157n, 190, 253, 297, 322, 354, 358
Right ascension
115, 397, 412
Right hand
96-97, 99, 253, 358
Ritual bread
41, 43, 44
Roman Catholic missionaries
23-25, 73-74, 99, 163, 166-67, 176, 326, 336-38, 339, 363-64
Roman Catholicism
23-25, 71, 73-74, 163, 166, 182, 336-39, 340, 347, 357n, 362
Romans
1, 10-11, 156-58, 160n, 208-11, 238, 242, 276, 316, 320, 322
Rome
13n, 28, 117, 163, 208, 320, 337n
Rufinus, Tyrannius
326
Ruler from the East
284-85, 294
Ruler of the year
124-25, 419
Rumanian texts
159, 264, 395
Russia
1-2, 23, 25-28, 29n, 31n, 46n, 74, 76, 104, 129, 143, 168-69, 180, 275, 352, 400
Russian astrology
18n, 152-54, 159-60, 182, 238, 244, 253, 261, 263, 266-68, 270, 298, 300-01, 304, 305, 348, 357, 360-61, 395, 401
Russo-Turkish war (1768-74)
26
Sabian Symbols
412
Sabianism
13-15, 406, 410, 412
Safavid Empire
2, 16, 26, 275, 414
Sagittarius
115-16, 131, 142-43, 210, 280
Sahl ibn Bishr [Zael]
13
Salamanca
18, 90
Salmeschoeniaca
272
Samael
230, 349
Samarqand
16, 167, 171, 172, 249n
Sanskrit language
6, 11n, 12n, 248, 252-53, 281-82, 395, 415
Saturn
12, 15, 32, 60, 62, 89-90, 125-27, 132-33, 136-38, 138n, 158n, 164, 165n, 178, 179n, 196n, 197, 331, 396, 405, 406, 409, 416
Scapulomancy
34, 35-36, 399, 412-13
Schober, Gottlieb
170
Scintillation
289
Scorpio
50n, 116, 131, 210, 219n, 250n, 260, 397, 403
Secondary motion
398
Secondary planets
280
Self-similarity
6, 32, 282, 354
Seismologia
6, 148, 150, 155-56, 161-62, 207n, 225, 229-30, 284, 409, 413
Senacher
271
Seneca the Elder, Lucius Annaeus
15n, 152, 156-58, 208, 276
Septimus Severus
11
Serbian texts
159
Serpens
116n
Serpent
39, 62, 93, 95n, 116n, 166, 260, 268, 269, 271, 280, 316, 320, 324, 332, 343-44, 349, 351, 362, 394, 415
Servius
158, 278n
Seven belts
116, 196, 200-01
Seven stars
252
Seven planets
57n, 59, 62, 93, 96, 112-15, 123, 133, 174, 184, 195-96, 198, 295n, 392, 397, 400, 409, 413
Sexagesimal system
9n
Sextus Julius Africanus
209n
Shamanism
30, 51n
Shaula [λ Scorpii]
42
Shemakha
134
al-Shīrāzī, Quṭb al-Dīn
172, 282
Sidereal zodiac
11, 221, 224, 233, 293, 404, 406, 410, 413-14
Sieda-žaĭna (Chechen Star Book)
36-38, 43-44
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de
303-04
Silk Road [Seidenstraße]
1-2, 19, 26n, 254-57, 259, 269-70, 414
Simplicius
9n
Sipias
24, 364n
Sirius [Dog Star]
131, 261, 266, 287n, 290, 292, 301, 316, 394
Sixtus V (pope)
70, 72
Slavery
23, 26, 27, 43, 51, 57, 155, 229, 285, 341n
Slavs
263-64
Smallpox
322-23, 327
Sogdians
255
Sol Invictus
11
Solstices
39, 43, 55, 116n, 124, 131, 177, 192, 259, 282, 290, 292, 301, 316, 393, 396, 403, 414, 415, 425
Sonnensprachtheorie
254-55n
Soothsayers
34, 36, 52, 59, 156, 196, 334, 357, 415
Sorcery
62n, 64, 218n, 222, 242n, 319, 333, 342, 343-45, 397
Solomon
136, 253, 263, 270, 352, 395
Solomon II of Imereti
360
Spain
17, 18n, 134, 136, 338
Spasmatomancy
6, 19n
Specialized lunaria
206, 211-12, 216, 218, 219, 227, 231, 238, 240, 245, 317-18
Spells
324-25, 331
Spoon-winding
36, 50
Sphere of fire
15, 86-87, 92, 113, 175, 273, 280, 283
Sphujidhvaja
11
Stags
51n, 54, 56
Star of Bethlehem
12, 288-89, 334-35, 349, 404-05
Stella ophiomimeta [varsk’vlavi]
29n, 187, 205, 223, 230, 235-36, 246-71, 362, 392, 395, 402, 415
Stephanus of Byzantium
315-16, 334
Stobaeus
272, 397
Stockholm
104, 170n
Stöder
160-61n
Stöffler, Johannes
304
Strabo
320n, 326n
Subdivision of days
211, 218
Suetonius
276n
al-Ṣūfī
13
Sumerian language
254-55n
Sumerian-Turanian hypothesis
254n
Sun
10, 32, 38-40, 43-44, 51, 54-57, 61-63, 71, 80, 88, 96, 103, 106, 117, 119, 122, 125n, 127, 128, 132, 133, 136, 138-39, 142, 151-53, 155, 159, 162, 164, 165, 191, 193, 195-97, 199-200, 207, 210, 213, 231, 232, 239, 253, 255n, 260, 264, 267, 278n, 280, 282, 285-86, 288, 289, 293, 294-95, 302, 305-06, 308-13, 316, 319, 325, 335, 343, 393, 395, 397, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403-04, 405, 408, 409, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416
Sun-sign astrology
17n
Sun-worship
11, 43-44, 46, 54-55, 57, 63, 199, 239
Sunrise
53, 55, 95, 213, 288, 301, 309-13, 335, 401
Sunset
213, 285, 288, 295, 309-12, 401
Sundials
45, 55-56
Surgery
216, 219, 331
Suvorov, Alexander
26n
Svans
24, 27, 54-55, 57, 327, 414
Svet’icxovlis Sak’atedro T’adzari [Living Pillar Cathedral], Mtskheta
3, 56, 59, 164, 343
Sweden
28, 104-05, 323
Swords
190, 196, 249, 260, 276n, 277, 322, 332, 334
Sympathetic magic
30, 210, 416-17
Synod of Laodicea
333
Synodic month
138, 221
Synodic tables
9
Syria
13, 61, 406, 412
Syriac Book of Medicines
14n, 213, 223n, 232n, 278, 292, 296, 300, 301n, 307, 308, 310-11, 317-18, 353
Syzygy
10, 213, 222, 240, 399, 416
Tables of houses
8, 80, 117, 119, 167n, 338, 341n, 405, 416
Tabula Smaragdina
7n
Talismanic magic
14, 173, 222, 392, 397
Taurus
156, 222n, 226n, 233, 262, 278, 397, 400
Tavrizeli, Mirza Abduriza
167-68, 341
Tbilisi
2, 26-27, 56, 63, 117, 167, 169-71, 176, 275, 329, 361, 363, 414
Teimuraz I of K’akheti-Kartli
23-24, 28, 337n
Teimuraz II of K’akheti-Kartli
24, 28
Telescopes
90, 103, 275
Temperament
195, 198-99, 226, 316, 416
Ten Plagues
278n, 350
Termini
10, 123, 125n, 403, 416
Tertullian
334-35
Testament of Solomon
352
Textual transmission
8, 200-01, 219, 305-11
Thābit ibn Qurra [Tebit]
14n, 261n
Theatines
24, 73, 182, 326, 336-37, 355, 363-64
Theodorus Meliteniotes
281
Theodosius (astrologer)
334
Theon of Alexandria
261n
Theophrastus (Theophrastan De signis)
102, 152-53, 287, 292n, 294-96, 299-301, 312-13
Thessalus of Tralles
315
Thietmar
191n
Third heaven
83, 91, 339
Thirteen
43, 56, 61n, 112, 207, 209n, 250, 261, 332
Thirty-one
77-83, 112, 142-43, 221, 399
Thirty-one stars
112, 142-43
Thomas Aquinas, St.
102
Thomas Didymus, St.
185, 346, 347, 349
Thunder
35, 53, 103, 148-51, 154-62, 184, 187, 205, 223, 225, 229, 235, 285-86, 291, 293, 300, 306, 308-13, 332, 344, 393, 394
Tiberius
11
Tibet
324
Tibetan astrology
18-19, 258-59, 401
Tin Road
2, 414
Tobit
351
Tolstoy, Leo
275
Torres Villarroel, Diego de
18
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
25, 28
Trepanation of the skull
320
Trepidation
261
Triangulum
41, 392
Trigonometry
8, 16, 405
Triplicities
115, 123, 125, 417
Tropic of Cancer
176
Tropic of Capricorn
176
Tropical zodiac
12n, 233n, 393, 410, 413-14, 417
Ts’ereteli, Dositheus (Catholicos)
360-61
Turco-Persian treaty of 1638
23
Turkey
26-27, 37-38n
Turks
1, 28, 34, 47, 124, 213, 252-55, 266, 270, 323, 400
Turkish astrology
16, 249-52, 270, 364, 395, 415
Turkish language
44n, 136, 247n, 249, 252-55, 256, 264, 354, 364, 415
Ubykh
24, 31n, 400
Ulugh Beg
12, 16, 167n, 169, 172
Underworld
38
Urban VIII, Pope
336
Ursa Major
41, 58, 118
Ursa Minor
58, 118
Usc’oro Karabadini
327, 330, 331
Ut supra ita infra
7, 416
Vainakh astrology
19, 36-42, 47, 268-70, 299
Vainakh peoples
32, 35-42, 57, 270, 395, 402, 403, 407
Vakht’ang VI of Kartli
3, 5, 16, 24-29, 64, 75, 83, 98, 163-64, 166-80, 245, 283n, 339-42, 344-45, 354, 391
Vakhushti Bagrat’ioni
25, 28, 169n, 172, 179, 360
Valens (emperor)
334
Valentinian (emperor)
334
Valladolid
90
Varāhamihira
302
Varro, Marcus Terentius
208-10, 296
Vaticinatio
30-31, 399, 408, 411, 413, 417
Vega [α Lyrae]
58, 291
Venomous sign [Scorpio]
116
Venice
69-70, 73, 107-08, 135, 303n, 352, 418, 422-23
Venus
44, 45n, 58, 88, 96, 125-27, 143, 165, 196, 199, 225, 232, 239, 252-53, 264, 281n, 282, 394, 395, 406, 408, 415
Vepxis T’q’aosani
61-62, 167, 342
Vermin
150, 159
Vettius Valens
222, 315, 403
Vineyards
225, 227, 345, 349
Virgil
212, 287, 394
Virgin Mary
102, 184, 186, 230, 347, 349-50
Virgo
116, 119, 332
Vitruvius
55n
Volgarmo (unidentified writer)
101
Voltaire
104, 170-71n
Waning moon
128, 140, 211, 231, 315, 325, 335
War of the Spanish Succession
75
Watchers [ἐγρήγοροι]
351
Waxing moon
128, 140, 209-11, 231, 315, 325, 335
Western Europe
2, 16, 23, 25, 27-29, 46, 64, 99-100, 104, 125, 136, 138, 145, 147, 154, 162-63, 174, 182, 194, 321, 337, 340, 353, 396, 404
Western Empire
15
Western Georgia
23-24, 27, 54, 73, 117, 182, 194, 323, 326, 360-61
Wick-winding
36, 50
Wind-Star
269-70
Winds
33, 37n, 103, 105-06, 133, 136, 149-53, 156, 159, 194, 201, 260-61, 268-70, 277, 286-87, 291-92, 293, 295-301, 306, 308-13, 323, 325, 328, 331, 335, 415
Witchcraft
32-33, 221, 229, 230, 237, 324, 338, 343-44, 406
Witte, Alfred
246n
Wolff, Christian
180
Xenophon
208n
Yavanajataka
11
Yerevan
2
Zampi, Giuseppe-Maria
24, 49, 301-02, 337, 344, 354-55, 358-59
Zīj al-Sindhind
12
Zīj-i Shāh
393
Zīj-i Sulṭānī
12, 169, 172
Zodiac (12 signs)
17, 32, 37, 61, 67, 79-82, 88, 106, 112, 114-18, 133, 138, 140, 141, 146, 151, 156, 158n, 159, 162, 176, 177, 190, 191, 194, 199n, 208n, 213, 215, 218-19, 221, 222, 224, 232-34, 244-45, 256, 260, 264, 265, 267, 303, 333, 336, 343, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 403, 404, 405, 409n, 410, 411-12, 413-14, 415, 416, 417
Zodiacal quadrants
54, 221n, 222n, 403, 411-12
Zodiologia
181-84, 190-92, 417
Zohar
125n
Zoroaster
265
Zoroastrianism
280, 404, 405
Zubenelgenubi [α Librae]
291