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23 Once again. The last glyph on side a of the C tablet was at *26 - i.e. at the current position for the current star at the north pole, viz. Polaris. By adding *15 right ascension days (= 360 / 24) to *26 we will arrive at Bharani (*41.4, 41 Arietis) - located like a yoga star half a year away from Zuben Elgenubi in Libra. *41 + *183 = *224: ... Punarvasu is one of the twenty-seven (or twenty-eight) zodiacal constellations in the Indian system of Nakshatras. In each of the Nakshatras there is a 'yoga', a key star that marks a station taken by the moon in its monthly (twenty-seven- or twenty-eight-day course) through the stars. (The sidereal period of the moon, twenty-seven days and a fraction , should be distinguished from the synodic, or phase-shift period of 29.5 days, which is the ultimate antecedent of our month.) ...
The date May 1 corresponded to Beltaine:
And *225 was the position for the ancient star at the north pole named Kochab (Kakkab, the Star).
This was at glyph number 408 and - as if by chance - glyph number 408 on the G tablet corresponded to March 21 and the star named Sirrah at the back of the head (teke) of Andromeda:
In order to move from Polaris to Kochab it was necessary to add half a year. Which could be accomplished simply by shifting from the current heliacal view back to the nakshatra view. Although it would be necessary to add 16 days in order to go back to the corresponding time-space position. *26 (Polaris) + *16 + *183 = *225 (Kochab). Anciently they waited for the return to visibility of the relevant star after its close encounter with the powerful and blinding rays from the Sun, which motivated an addition with *16 days. ... Like the sun, chiefs of the highest tabus - those who are called 'gods', 'fire', 'heat', and 'raging blazes' - cannot be gazed directly upon without injury. The lowly commoner prostrates before them face to the ground, the position assumed by victims on the platforms of human sacrifice. Such a one is called makawela, 'burnt eyes' ... And in order to then once again return to the heliacal view - dominating our current age - it would be convenient to let day 225 in our current calendar (viz. August 13) be the proper place for the Sun, viz. when the Full Moon ideally was at February 12 (365 + 31 + 12 = 408 = 225 + 183). And then, moving 354 / 2 = 177 days further ahead would point to April 25 (115 → synodic circuit of Mercury, Odin). Which might explain why only one 'eye' remained:
The other had presumably been swallowed by the Mouth of the Fish (Fom-al-haut) at the ancient place for April 25 (115 = 80 + 35) corresponding to the current date 298 (October 25) - 118 = 180 (June 29). ... The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish ...
... When it was evident that the years lay ready to burst into life, everyone took hold of them, so that once more would start forth - once again - another (period of) fifty-two years. Then (the two cycles) might proceed to reach one hundred and four [104] years. It was called One Age when twice they had made the round, when twice the times of binding the years had come together. Behold what was done when the years were bound - when was reached the time when they were to draw the new fire, when now its count was accomplished. First they put out fires everywhere in the country round. And the statues, hewn in either wood or stone, kept in each man's home and regarded as gods, were all cast into the water. Also (were) these (cast away) - the pestles and the (three) hearth stones (upon which the cooking pots rested); and everywhere there was much sweeping - there was sweeping very clear. Rubbish was thrown out; none lay in any of the houses ...
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