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That the Babylonians had such a system as is here outlined is confirmed by Diodorus Seculus. The position of Nibir, or Jupiter, whose course keeps closer to the ecliptic than that of any other planet, served as an important guide in calendrical calculations.
As a hemisphere it suggests the picture of a mountain, rising at one end, mounting to a culminating point, and descending at the other end. Hence by the side of Esharra, another name by which the earth was known was Ekur, that is, 'the mountain house. Diodorus Seculus, in speaking of the Babylonian cosmology, employs a happy illustration.
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