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):
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.
... 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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