influence on specific regions of the earth. A major weakness in this suggestion is that there were different astrological geographies, relating different countries to different constellations. No one known scheme explains the links of animals and countries in either Daniel 7 or 8. Also, the earliest astrological geography comes from the first century A.D., and it is not clear how much earlier than this the idea came into being. Finally, it is doubtful whether anyone in the ancient Near East used