The zodiac, i.e., the band or zone around the sky through which the sun, the moon, and the planets travel in their apparent revolutions, was first established by the Babylonians. They formed the constellations along this zone and instituted its division into 12 equal portions, the “signs.” This knowledge was then handed on, in a northern branch of transmission, to the Greeks and through them further on into modern astronomy. In a southern branch of transmission, some of the zodiacal constellations reached the Arabs in the Arabian peninsula. In their folk astronomy they knew some of the zodiacal constellations – though not the complete system of 12 – which, in their astronomical lore, were sometimes located differently. For example the constellation al‐jawzā’ (standing for Gemini) is located in the Greek (and modern) Orion, al‐dalw (Aquarius) in Pegasus, and al‐ḥūt (Pisces) in Andromeda.