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None of these theories satisfies Dr. Hugh A. Moran, retired Presbyterian minister, and Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. from Columbia University. While studying Chinese 45 years ago, he became fascinated by the discovery that some basic Chinese characters have their origin in the signs of the solar zodiac. In spite of the press of more urgent business-he was an official of the Y.M.C.A. in China, director of prisoner relief in Siberia during World War I, pastor at Cornell University until 1942-Dr. Moran found time to dig deeper into the historical ABCs. eventually evolved a basic theory. The alphabet...
...Egypt, Babylon and China, the whole culture was built on the ideas of the stargazers. Each nation was ruled by the incarnation or representative of some sort of Sun God or Son of Heaven, and each regarded the bull as the sacred animal, the chief constellation of the zodiac (or circle of life). "These correspondences," says Moran, "were not accidental. They were part of a vast cosmological system . . . The slaughter of a bull at the spring equinox on altars so far separated as Ur of the Chaldees and the Valley of the Han shows common roots in a common culture...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette one morning last week, George Leader found a prediction for his sign of the zodiac, Capricorn: "This is your day to get together with every single individual who has any interest in you." George Leader had no trouble taking this advice. It was his inauguration day as Pennsylvania's first Democratic governor in 16 years. "This," said Leader, making a refreshing admission in his inaugural speech, "is a post I sought...
...days when the world has been keeping itself out of trouble with church socials and office parties, newspaper editors reverse their journalistic telescopes and take a far, generally dim, view of the approaching year. At the risk of appearing starry-eyed, the editors of the CRIMSON have tackled the zodiac and come up with the following predictions of things to come. It was the CRIMSON, you will remember, which alone predicted that '54's Miss Universe winner would come from the Western Hemisphere. With a little luck, perhaps we can do it again...
...women in the parade were slim and graceful, furled like striped umbrellas into acres of cotton cloth-some green, some plum, some crimson, and all decorated with patterns of elephants, tropical fish, signs of the zodiac and portraits of the late King George VI. The men, short, square and knobbly at the knees, wore Palm Beach shirts, open at the neck and hanging, like Harry Truman's, outside their shorts; a few had flowing togas, draped off one shoulder so that they looked like British soccer players decked out as Romans. Everyone in the procession was black, and proud...