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I'm sorry, but WTF is going on with this article? Someone has dropped in a tab-delimited table (which of course doesn't render correctly), containing, as far as anybody can tell, complete gibberish. Besides that, the one substantive paragraph starts by talking about groupings of stars, and proceeds to talk about days. What's the connection? Can anybody out there clear this piece o' crap up? Thank you. Rocinante9x 01:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it's gibberishy. I'm moving the anonymous edit to this page (in case there is any salvagable material) while removing it from the article. There are a number of images associated with decans Egyptian (obviously), Hellenistic, Medieval, Indian and others. Some of the ones below look familiar, but I don't recall the source. I think this is an Indian version. Zeusnoos 02:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit made on June 30

Balinese 35 = 36 dekanoi Bali Hermes Trismegistos Occult Philosophy by Corn. Agrippa Vr.hat Jataka by Varaha-mihira Kemetian dekanoi

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1 "the carrying away of dead bodies" 13 vulture & jackal [as corpse-devourers]; lamentation for the dead 25 jackal 4 sun 23 sun 7 horse 14 horse 10 "shifting of one's faults" 17 account of receipts & disbursements 21 ape 14 ape 14 wild hound 6 hound 23 hounds biting 21 hog 34 swine 28 hog 29 2 women woman musician 25 quail 31 vulture 26 headless body 28 headless man 27 gooseberry bush 32 silk-cotton trees 28 crab 22 crab 34, 35 at sea 29 rice-barn 5 grain 30 jar 32 head 20 head 31, 32 man's head 33 elephant 10 elephantine composite 34 divorced woman 18 woman 11 woman 35 overladen boat 12 ship C&CB, pp. 151-153 D&D, pp. 160, 166, 172 OPh & D&D, pp. 165, 171, 175 "I&ADZ", pp. 367-373 D&D, pp. 18-21 (depicted in D) the Hellenistic Aiguptian and older Kemetian run backwards C&CB = R. Friederich (tr. by Ernst R. Rost): The Civilization and Culture of Bali. 1887. D&D = STUDIEN DER BIBLIOTHEK WARBURG, XIX = Wilhelm Gundel: Dekane und Dekansternbilder. J.J. Augustin, Glu:ckstadt und Hamburg, 1936. OPh = http://www.tarot.org.il/Decans/ & http://www.tarot.org.il/decans.html "I&ADZ" = "On the Indian and Arabian Divisions of the Zodiack." In:- Asiatick Researches, Vol. 9. London, 1809. D = http://sethy1.free.fr/decan1a.html