The Roman Philosopher Seneca, discussing the Babylonian cosmology of Berossos, informs us that 'Berossos states that everything takes place according to the course of the planets, and he maintains this so confidently that he determined the time for the conflagration of the world and for the flood. He asserts that the world will burn when all the planets that now move in different courses come together in the Crab, so that they all stand in a straight line in the same sign, and that the future flood will take place when the same conjunction occurs in Capricorn. For the former is the constellation of the summer solstice, the latter of the winter solstice; they are the decisive signs of the zodiac, because the turning points of the year lie in them.

The Mythic Image p 149.

(Of course- this is no longer true- See Precession of the Equinoxes )