I was today year's old when I learned about Capricorn. I noticed a bizarre image on some printed material. I thought it was a hilarious fail by the printer, but it had the zodiac name "Capricorn" printed over it, or under it, looking silly like this:
Is it...half goat and half...fish?
The answer is emphatically YES. It's the sea goat. I looked it up. The Greeks tried to work this sea-goat entity into their zodiac, it being a remnant of the Babylonian representation of Enki one of their gods. A holdover, if you will.
I never knew that Capricorn is a mer-goat. WHERE HAVE I BEEN? Maybe this is silly and obvious to most people, but I'm not most people...?
It made it onto coins?!?
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