Circle of stars all EU leaders as the official emblem of the European Communities, and in 1993 inherited by the successor organisation, the European Union. All European institutions now use an emblem of their own. The Zodiac is an ancient "circle of stars" where some stars are symbolically combined into 12 Star signs also known as constellations. The etymology of the term Zodiac comes from the Latin zōdiacus, from the Greek ζῳδιακός [κύκλος], meaning "[circle] of animals", derived from ζῴδιον, the diminutive of ζῷον "animal". The Crown of Immortality is a separate and earlier motif (and metaphor) which also uses a circle of
Jacob (name) Jacob (name) Jacob is a common male given name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James. Jacob is derived from Late Latin "Iacobus", from Greek "Iakobos", from Hebrew ("Yaʿqob", "Yaʿaqov", " Yaʿăqōḇ"), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and Rebecca. The name comes either from the Hebrew root "ʿqb" meaning "to follow, to be behind" but also "to supplant, circumvent, assail, overreach", or from the word for "heel", "ʿaqeb". In the narrative of Genesis, it refers to the circumstances of Jacob's birth when he held on to the heel of his older