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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. XXXIII. THE ASTROLOGERS OF CAMBALUC
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of the year ; as, for example, under which Moon there
shall be thunderstorms and tempests, under which there
shall be disease, murrain, wars, disorders, and treasons,
and so on, according to the indications of each ; but
always adding that it lies with God to do less or
more according to His pleasure. And they write down
the results of their examination in certain little pamphlets
for the year, which are called Tacuin, and these are sold
for a groat to all who desire to know what is coming.
Those of the astrologers, of course whose predictions
are found to be most exact, are held to be the greatest
adepts in their art, and get the greater fame.'
And if any one having some great matter in hand,
or proposing to make a long journey for traffic or other
business, desires to know what will be the upshot, he
goes to one of these astrologers and says : Turn up
your books and see what is the present aspect of the
heavens, for I am going away on such and such a
business." Then the astrologer will reply that the
applicant must also tell the year, month, and hour of his
birth ; and when he has got that information he will see
how the horoscope of his nativity combines with the
indications of the time when the question is put, and
then he predicts the result, good or bad, according to
the aspect of the heavens.
You must know, too, that the Tartars reckon their
years by twelves ; the sign of the first year being the
Lion, of the second the Ox, of the third the Dragon, of
the fourth the Dog, and so forth up to the twelfth ;2 so
that when one is asked the year of his birth he answers
that it was in the year of the Lion (let us say), on such a
day or night, at such an hour, and such a moment.
And the father of a child always takes care to write
thesep articulars down in a book. When the twelve
yearly symbols mbols have been gone through, then they come
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