Mars.im.Goldenen.Tor.der.Ekliptik.P1025010.jpg|From lower left to upper right:
Sirius (
Canis majoris),
constellation Orion,
constellation Taurus with open star cluster
Hyades, planet
Mars exactly in the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic, open star cluster
Pleiades. Taurus.Aequinoktialpunkt.Plejaden.png|4,500 years ago the location of the equinox was in the middle of the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic. From 4000 to 1500 BC the
equinox was within the constellation Taurus, and therefore great importance was attached to this constellation. The 4500 year old sky tablet of the
Neolithic Tal-Qadi Temple in
Malta is thought to display the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic. == Sources ==