The twelve signs of the zodiac have many signs which are Sanskrit, Aquarius is the Sanskrit root “Apa” meaning “water” Taurus is the Sanskrit “Sthura” meaning “bull” Gemini is the Sanskrit “Yama” and “Yamini” meaning “twins” Sagittarius is the Sanskrit “Sac” meaning “to seek” and Virgo is from the Sanskrit “Vira” meaning “man”.
~Another sign is the constellation “Cancer”. In Sanskrit the word for “crab” is “Karka” and this becomes the Greek “Karkinos” a giant crab who fought Hercules on behalf of Hydra and in return for his heroics he was placed amongst the stars as the constellation “Cancer”.
~Cancer” as a disease was named around 400 B.C. by the Greek physician Hippocrates. The various tributaries and arteries which spread from the cancer he likened to the legs of a crab and so he named the cancerous cell “karkinos” the Greek word for “crab”. This then became “carcinos” and around the 1st century A.D. Celsus transformed it into “cancer” which came from the Greek “karkinos” meaning “crab” whose source is the Sanskrit “karka” meaning “crab”.
~The affinity between the Greek language and the old Parsee and Sanskrit is certain and essential. The use of cognate idioms prove that the nations who used them to have descended from the same stock. That the religion of the Greeks emanated from an Eastern shore no-one will deny. We must therefore suppose the religion, as well as the language of Greece to have been derived, in great part, largely from the east”. Dr Prichard - Physical History Of Man.
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