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16 nowadays, pointed originally to sunrise circa 2000 B.c.E. The phenomenon, called Precession of the Equinoxes or just Precession, results from the fact that as the Earth com- pletes one annual orbit around the Sun, it does not return to the same exact celestial spot. There is a slight, very slight retardation; it amounts to one degree (out of 360 in the circle) in 72 years. It was Enki who first grouped the stars observ- able from Earth into “constellations,” and divided the heav- ens in which the Earth circled the sun into twelve parts—what has since been called the Zodiacal Circle of constellations (Fig. 7). Since each twelfth part of the circle occupied 30 degrees of the celestial arc, the retardation or Precessional shift from one Zodiacal House to another lasted (mathemat- ically) 2,160 years (72 x 30), and a complete zodiacal cycle lasted 25,920 years (2,160 x 12). The approximate dates of the Zodiacal Ages—following the equal twelve-part divi- sion and not actual astronomical observations—have been added here for the reader’s guidance. 2100 AD 23820 BC & 0 Be 33020 8° 10860 BC THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 7