Nin-girsu , solar deity, 51 ; subordinate to Bel, 53 , 57 ; identity with Ninib, 57 , 217 ( cf. 528 ); temple E-Ninnu in Girsu, 57 , 87 , 634 -5, 640 ; votive offerings, 57 ; agricultural deity = Shulgur, 58 ; identity with Tammuz, 58 ; relations to Nin-shakh, 93 ; in Gudea's pantheon, 106 ; [Pg 766] in incantations, 273 ; zikkurat in Lagash or Girsu, 619 , 635 , 639 ; shrine in Lagash, 640 ; his ship, 654 ; consort of Bau, 59 , 677 .
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

And this forseide hevenissh zodiak is cleped the Cercle of the Signes, or the Cercle of the Bestes; for zodia in langage of Greek sowneth 'bestes' in Latin tonge; and in the zodiak ben the twelve signes that ban 40 names of bestes; or elles, for whan the sonne entreth in any of the signes, he taketh the propretee of swich bestes; or elles, for that the sterres that ben there fixed ben disposed in signes of bestes , or shape like bestes; or elles, whan the planetes ben under thilke {187a} signes, they causen us by hir influence operaciouns and effectes 45 lyk to the operaciouns of bestes.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Eyrish bestes , aerial animals; alluding to the signs of the zodiac, such as the Ram, Bull, Lion, Goat, Crab, Scorpion, &c.; and to other constellations, such as the Great Bear, Eagle, Swan, Pegasus, &c. Chaucer himself explains that the 'zodiak is cleped the cercle of the signes, or the cercle of the bestes ; for zodia in langage of Greek sowneth bestes in Latin tonge'; Astrolabe, Part 1, § 21, 1. 37.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer