THE D TABLET
 

Thus it could be said we have secured - as far as such things are possible - the meaning of line Da1 by way of heliacal Aldebaran and the meaning of line Da2 by way of Nash (γ Sagittarii) at the timeline of the Full Moon (and down in the Milky Way River):

Nov 25 (329) 26 27 28 (332) 29 30
Da1-1 Da1-2 Da1-3 Da1-4 Da1-5 Da1-6
ANTARES *250 ζ Ophiuchi (*251.0) *252 ATRIA DENEBAKRAB
*66 *67 ALDEBARAN *69 *70 TABIT
FEBR 11 12 (31 + 12 = 43)

*40

MARCH 24 (83)

JULIAN EQUINOX

Gb7-24

Gb7-25

Ga1-3

Ga1-4

POLARIS (*26)

SHERATAN

*67 = *26 + *41

ALDEBARAN

April 16 (106, 471) 17 (80 + 27 = 107)

May 27 (147)

28 (84 + 64)

 

Da2-1 (21) Da2-2 Da2-3 Da2-4 Da2-5
June 15 (166) 16 17 18 19
Nakshatra stars ideally visible at the time line of the Full Moon:
MULIPHEN (*269.0) GRUMIUM RUKBALGETHI GENUBI ζ Serpentis (*272.4) NASH (*273)
Derived heliacal stars located half a year earlier:
SAIPH (κ Orionis) WEZN (β Columbae) BETELGEUZE (*88) MENKALINAN μ + χ Orionis (*90)

 

 

*29

 

 

Da2-5

Ga2-25

Ga2-26

NASH (*273 → 3 * 91)

γ Sagittae

τ Aquilae (*303 → 3 * 101)

*90

DRUS

ω Cancri (*120)

June 19 (170)

July 18

19 (200)

APRIL 6 (106, 471)

MAY 15 (135, 500)

16 (136)

Da2-6 Da2-7 Da2-8 Da2-9 Da2-10 (30)
June 20 (171) Solstice 22 23 St John's Day
Nakshatra stars ideally visible at the time line of the Full Moon:
ο Herculis (*274.0) POLIS

MENKAR

*276 KAUS MEDIUS KAUS AUSTRALIS

(X-mas Eve)

Derived heliacal stars located half a year earlier:
ν Orionis (*91.4) *92 TEJAT PRIOR (*93.4)  FURUD CANOPUS (*95)

Da2-11 Da2-12 Da2-13 Da2-14 Da2-15 Da2-16 (36)
June 25 (176) 26 27 28 29 30 (181)
Nakshatra stars ideally visible at the time line of the Full Moon:
KAUS BOREALIS ν Pavonis (*280.4) θ Cor. Austr. (*281.0) + WEGA *282 ζ Pavonis (*283.4) Φ Sagittarii (*284.0)
Derived heliacal stars located half a year earlier:
*96 β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (*97.0) *98 ψ³ Aurigae (*99.4)

GEMMA

MEBSUTA SIRIUS

And the end of line Da2 has evidently been designed to coincide with heliacal Sirius when the Full Moon ideally should be at the right ascension line at Φ in the Tea-pot.

Egyptian bread, (-t, female determinant) Phoenician qoph Greek phi Φ(φ)

... is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet ... Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa ... In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 or 500000 ...

Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: 'The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot' ...

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...

... The Sothic cycle was based on what is referred to in technical jargon as 'the periodic return of the heliacal rising of Sirius', which is the first appearance of this star after a seasonal absence, rising at dawn just ahead of the sun in the eastern portion of the sky. In the case of Sirius the interval between one such rising and the next amounts to exactly 365.25 days - a mathematically harmonious figure, uncomplicated by further decimal points, which is just twelve minutes longer than the duration of the solar year ...

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