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53 The planets had stable orbits. Otherwise they would long since have collided and disintegrated.
Otherwise they could not be integrated into a stable calendar.
And likewise it would not have been possible to create an overview with for instance Jupiter (398 → 584 - 186) at the end of the first half of the year - below the Head of Leo - and Mars (780 → 584 + 4 * 49) at its beginning, viz. above the Tail of the Goatfish:
186 + 196 = 2 * 191 (→ Porrima, *191.5). As for Venus (584) we should find her at the Lady of Heavens, viz. at τ Piscium (*16.5 → 191.5 - 350 / 2): ... Though Andromeda has its roots most firmly in the Greek tradition, a female figure in Andromeda's place appeared in Babylonian astronomy. The stars that make up Pisces and the middle portion of modern Andromeda formed a constellation representing a fertility goddess, sometimes named as Anunitum or the Lady of the Heavens ...
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