Zodiac constellations can be traced even further back, to Bronze Age (First Babylonian dynasty) sources, including Gemini "The Twins", from MAŠ.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL "The Great Twins", and Cancer "The Crab", from AL.LUL "The Crayfish", among others. Around the end of the 5th century BC, Babylonian astronomers divided the ecliptic into twelve equal "signs", by analogy to twelve schematic months of thirty days each. Each sign contained thirty degrees of celestial longitude, thus creating the first known celestial coordinate system. Unlike modern astronomers, who place the beginning of the sign of Aries at the place of the Sun at the vernal equinox; Babylonian astronomers
The Golden Crab The Golden Crab The Golden Crab is a Greek fairy tale collected as "Prinz Krebs" by Bernhard Schmidt in his "Griechische Märchen, Sagen and Volkslieder". Andrew Lang included it in "The Yellow Fairy Book". Georgios A. Megas collected a variant, The Crab, in "Folktales of Greece". It is Aarne-Thompson type 425D, Vanished Husband learned of by keeping inn. One day a fisherman, who had a wife and three children, caught a golden crab with the rest of his fish. He took it home, and the crab told his wife, who was cleaning the other fish, to let down her skirt,