This lure of the skies produced a fertile lore of the skies. The powers of sun and rain, the correspondence between happenings in the heavens and happenings on earth, stirred the search for other correspondences. The Babylonians were among the first who elaborated a mythological frame for these universal correspondences. Their vivid imaginings would be perpetuated by Greeks, Jews, Romans, and others over the following centuries. The theory of correspondences became astrology, which sought new links between space and time, between the movements of physical bodies and the unfolding of all human
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