Constellations

On reading a few posts I was wondering about constellations. Is astrology a religion? I would appreciate any thoughts.

I was wondering after reading about constellations.

What I read was,
Eudoxus had allegedly learned the constellations from priests in Egypt and then introduced them to Greece. It's appears more likely, however, that the cosmological idea of naming the constellations was appropriated from the Greek's neighbors the Babylonians and Sumerians. Upon the Greeks "borrowing" the constellations (and utilizing a few of the same figures and symbols) - they, then, went about devising many of their own unique names and explanations as to how all the different animals and people had gotten into the sky. The ancient Greeks originally gave us 48 "classical" constellations. Since then, more and more constellations have been added - and today there are now a total of 88.

The Babylonians and the Egyptians had also previously founded the cosmological concept that each year the Sun passed through divisions or sectors in the sky which were located on an imaginary circle called the "ecliptic." It is believed that the ancient, imaginal, and archetypal concept of a "world soul" ruled by divisions or sectors came first - then, later, (based on these preexisting imaginal divisions) came the naming of the actual constellations in the sky. The Greeks also borrowed this idea from their neighbors.

The imaginary "ecliptic" 12 sector circle of the Sun's path through the sky - constructed by the Greeks (and later adopted by the Romans) - is today commonly known as the 12 Signs of the Zodiac.