THE D TABLET

 

It is not strange that astronomy was named The Royal Art - it would have the full attention of the King because his life depended on it.

And as if in a twist of imagination Halley had created a constellation for the Royal Oak in front of Argo Navis, at its magical prow.

... Robur Carolinum, Charles' Oak, the Quercia of Italy and the Karlseiche of Germany, was formally published by Halley in 1679 in commemoration of the Royal Oak of his patron, Charles II, in which the king had lain hidden for twenty-four hours after his defeat by Cromwell in the battle of Worcester, on the 3rd of September 1651 ...

Like One Hunaphu the English king named Charles II had lost:

... The state of the tree loomed large in their thoughts, because it came about at the same time the head of One Hunaphu was put in the fork. The Xibalbans said among themselves: 'No one is to pick the fruit, nor is anyone to go beneath the tree', they said. They restricted themselves, all of Xibalba held back ...

A date has been given for us by Halley, viz. September 3 (246, *166). This should be 3 weeks after Da5-14. Because September 3 (246) - 21 = 225 (August 13).

Here - in August 13 - when the Sun would be at the Knot (Ukdah) - the Full Moon ought ideally to be visible at the right ascension line connected with Nashira (the Western One in the Tail of the Goat):

In the Golden Age of the Bull the corresponding date would have been 225 - 64 = 161 (JUNE 10):

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

246 (September 3) - 64 = 182 (JULY 1). And 64 is the mirror image (palindrome) of 46.

... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...

Regulus - the little king - was 5 days after Vathorz Prior (*147), and right ascension day *162 (Vathorz Posterior) was 10 days after Regulus (*152).

The pair of opposed kings - Regulus and Sadalmelik - could have inspired Halley to consider commemorating the fate of his own king when he was defeated 14 days after the Sun at Regulus

Regulus + 14 = 232 + 14 = 246 = September 3 = 242 (August 30 at Vathorz Posterior) + 4.

... Carina (the Straight Keel of Argo Navis) stretched all the way from Canopus (α) to Φ (φ, 540 Vathorz Posterior, *162, 242), a star to be searched for 10 days after the little king Regulus in line Da6 ...

... Shall one add Angkor to the list? It has five gates, and to each of them leads a road, bridging over that water ditch which surrounds the whole place. Each of these roads is bordered by a row of huge stone figures, 108 per avenue, 54 on each side, altogether 540 statues of Deva and Asura, and each row carries a huge Naga serpent with nine heads. Only, they do not 'carry' that serpent, they are shown to 'pull' it, which indicates that these 540 statues are churning the Milky Ocean, represented (poorly, indeed) by the water ditch, using Mount Mandara as a churning staff, and Vasuki, the prince of the Nagas, as their drilling rope ...

Could the pair of Vathorz stars measure out the width of the Cosmic Tree as 242 (which happens to be the number of glyphs on side b of the G tablet) - 227 = 15 right ascension days?

*360 / *15 = 24h and 366 - 360 = 6 'sleeping - dormitory - mats'.

The Mayan 20-day skeleton tree month Kankin was beginning with day 261 (= 9 * 29) and ending with day 280.

261 - 20 = 241 and therefore we might guess the previous 'red meat' month (Mac) was beginning not with day 241 but with day 242 because that was the position of Vathorz Posterior. Here the Tree was still living and in good shape - not a skeleton but still with meat on.