Greek (Ancient) term (edited): δεκανοί

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"Estos vigilantes de las estrellas desempeñaban sus deberes sacerdotales anotando la aparición de las ***decans*** (determinadas estrellas o constelaciones) en el horizonte oriental."
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reloj_de_sol

The Decans (also bakiu (Egyptian), dekanoi (Greek), drekkana (Sanskrit) ) are a way of grouping stars or reckoning time that originated in Ancient Egypt. Such stars, comprising 36 'constellations' are parallel to the ecliptic and 'co-rise' with the constellations of the zodiacal belt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decans

Egyptian, Greek, Syriac and Arabic astrological and astronomical texts all associate with the Signs of the Zodiac twelve groups, each containing three stars, which are commonly known as the "Thirty-six Dekans."
(Δεκανοί also called πρόσωπα, Ωροσκόποι, φύλακες and Επίσκοποι. They were well known to the Egyptians, who, as early as the fourteenth century b.c., possessed a full list of them. See Lepsius, Chronologie, Berlin, 1848, and Brugsch, Thesaurus (Astronomische und Astrologische Inschriften), Leipzig, 1883.)
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext06/8blgc10h.htm#fn13

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk:9673/Astrolabe/WebInterface/User/Glo...

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2006-11-14 21:25:55 GMT)
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