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40 It is not possible to 'cover all the ground' at once. We have to go back and add items once in a while. For instance should we remember the constellation of the Golden Fish - Dorado, "The word is from the Spanish, and refers not to our little exotic cyprinoid, but to the large coryphaena of the tropical seas, of changing colours at death." (Allen) which according to Hevelius (and wife) should be a Fish pointing straight down - and not straight up as the bird constellation named Grus:  
... Freeman describres the dualistic cosmology of the Pythagorean school (-5th century), embodied in a table of ten pairs of opposites. On one side there was the limited, the odd, the one, the right, the male, the good, motion, light, square and straight. On the other side there was the unlimited, the even, the many, the left, the female, the bad, rest, darkness, oblong and curved ... Counted from 16 January (Gb7-4 → 73 + 1) to Ab1-3 (All Hearts' Day) there were 29 days.
Maeva. T. 1. Move. Rangi-maeva = Moving Sky (name of a marae). 2. Greet, greeting. Henry.Maeva. T. 1. Move. Rangi-maeva = Moving Sky (name of a marae). 2. Greet, greeting. Henry.
Alphard (α Hydrae) culminated (at 21h) in March 26. And what constellation could better describe something curved?
 
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