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This fertile path of investigation should now be followed to the solstice and beyond:

APRIL 14 (104 = 4 * 22 + 16 = 2 * 52)

155

SEPT 17 (260)

11

SEPT 29 (272 = 4 * 64 + 16 = 4 * 68)

7

OCT 7 (280)

Ga1-24

Ga7-11 (180)

Ga7-23 (280 - 88)

Ga7-31 (200)

June 17 (168 = 2 * 84)

Nov 20 (*244)

Dec 2 (336 = 4 * 84)

Dec 10 (*264)

BETELGEUZE (*88)

ν Scorpii

CUJAM (*256)

υ (325) Scorpii

157 = 314 / 2

20 = 420 / 21

177 = 6 * 29½ = 472 - 295

55

DEC 2 (336 = 400 - 64) = 320 + 16

18

SOLSTICE

Gb2-1 (256 = 4 * 64 =  336 - 80 = 4 * 84 - 4 * 20)

Gb2-20 (275)

Febr 4 (400 = 4 * 100 = 80 + 320 = 4 * 20 + 4 * 80)

Terminalia

DRAMASA (*320.0 = 400 - 80) = 336 - 16

CASTOR

... In Hindu legend there was a mother goddess called Aditi, who had seven offspring. She is called 'Mother of the Gods'. Aditi, whose name means 'free, unbounded, infinity' was assigned in the ancient lists of constellations as the regent of the asterism Punarvasu. Punarvasu is dual in form and means 'The Doublegood Pair'. The singular form of this noun is used to refer to the star Pollux. It is not difficult to surmise that the other member of the Doublegood Pair was Castor. Then the constellation Punarvasu is quite equivalent to our Gemini, the Twins. In far antiquity (5800 BC) the spring equinoctial point was predicted by the heliacal rising of the Twins ...

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... In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux or Polydeuces were twin brothers, together known as the Dioscuri. Their mother was Leda, but Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, and Pollux the divine son of Zeus, who visited Leda in the guise of a swan. Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. In Latin the twins are also known as the Gemini or Castores. When Castor was killed, Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together, and they were transformed into the constellation Gemini. The pair was regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo's fire, and were also associated with horsemanship ...

DEC 22 23 (*277) CHRISTMAS EVE 25 26 (360) 57

... The evening of 23 June, St. John's Eve, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:36, 56-57) states that John was born about six months before Jesus; therefore, the feast of John the Baptist was fixed on 24 June, six months before Christmas Eve ...

Gb2-21 Gb2-22 Gb2-23 (229 + 49) Gb2-24 Gb2-25 (280)

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day') ...

δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ Cephei (340.2),  ν Gruis (340.3), ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (340.4), 5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9)

PROCYON (α Canis Minoris)

*299.0 = *340.4 - *41.4
υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN (Hero) = ζ Pegasi, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9)

η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (342.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7)

*301.0 = *342.4 - *41.4
ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8) ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct. (344.7)
Bissextum Febr 25 (*341) 26 27 (58) 28 (424)
°Febr 20 21 (52) 22 Terminalia 24 (420)
'Jan 28 (393) 29 (*314) 30 31 'Febr 1
"Jan 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JUNE 22 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 (*96) 26 (177)

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th [10/6 = 10/26 - 16] 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 ...

Extended Net-26b (Ox)

μ Hydrae (157.1)

Maru-sha-arkat-Sharru-15 (4th Son behind the King)

SHIR (Possessing Luminous Rays) = ρ Leonis (158.9)
p Carinae (159.3) φ Hydrae (160.3) No star listed (161)
Aug 25 (237) 26 27 28 29 (*161)
°Aug 21 (233) 22 23 24 25 (*157)
'July 29 (*130) 30 31 'Aug 1 2 (214)
"July 15 16 17 (*118) 18 19 (200)
FEBR 22 TERMINALIA 24 (*340) 25 (56) 26 (422)
Gb4-18 Gb4-19 Gb4-20 (111) Gb4-21 Gb4-22 (342)
ν Ceti (37.9) ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8)

μ Arietis (39.4), HEAD OF THE FLY = 35 Arietis (39.6), KAFFALJIDHMA (Part of a Hand) = γ Ceti, θ Persei (39.8)

 *363.0 = *39.4 - *41.4

π Ceti, ο Arietis (40.0), ANGETENAR (Bend in the River) = τ¹ Eridani, μ Ceti (40.2), RIGHT WING = 39 Arietis (40.9)

Bharani-2 (Yoni) / Stomach-17 (Pheasant)

π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM (Next to the Pleiades) = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)

April 27 28 (118) 29 (484) 30 May 1 (*41)
°April 23 24 (114) 25 (480) 26 (*36) 27
'March 31 (455) 'April 1 (91) 2 3 (*13) 4
"March 17 18 19 (78) 20 (444) 0h (*365)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 24 (2 * 118) 25 (*157) 26 27 28
σ Bootis (220.2), η Centauri (220.4)

 *179.0 = *220.4 - *41.4

ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) 31 Bootis (222.0), YANG MUN (South Gate) = α Lupi (222.1), RIJL AL AWWA (Foot of the Barker) = μ Virginis (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) IZAR (Girdle) = ε Bootis (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3), μ Librae (223.8)

Al Zubānā-14a (Claws) / Visakha-16 (Forked) / Root-3 (Badger)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)
Oct 27 (300) 28 (118 + 183) 29 (*222) 30 31
°Oct 23 (*216) 24 25 26 (299) 27 (300)
'Sept 30 (273) 'Oct 1 2 (*195) 3 4
"Sept 16 17 (260 = 77 + 183) 18 19 (*182) 20
2-27 FEBR 28 MARCH 1 (426) 3 (62) 4 (*348)
Gb4-23 Gb4-24 Gb4-25 4-26 Gb4-27 (118) Gb4-28 (348)

TA LING (Great Mound) = τ Persei (42.4)

 *1.0 = *42.4 - *41.4

ρ Arietis (43.0), GORGONEA SECUNDA = π Persei (43.5), ACAMAR (End of the River) = θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9)

DENEBOLA (β Leonis)

MENKAR (The Nose) = α Ceti (44.7) 3h (45.7)

GORGONEA TERTIA = ρ Persei (45.1), ALGOL (The Demon) = β Persei (45.9)

ι Persei (46.1), MISAM (Next to the Pleiades) = κ Persei (46.2), GORGONEA QUARTA = ω Persei (46.7), BOTEIN (Pair of Bellies) = δ Arietis (46.9) ζ Arietis (47.7)

... Algol, the Demon, the Demon Star, and the Blinking Demon, from the Arabians' Rā's al Ghūl, the Demon's Head, is said to have been thus called from its rapid and wonderful variations; but I find no evidence of this, and that people probably took the title from Ptolemy. Al Ghūl literally signifies a Mischief-maker, and the name still appears in the Ghoul of the Arabian Nights and of our day. It degenerated into the Alove often used some centuries ago for this star ... With astronomical writers of three centuries ago Algol was Caput Larvae, the Spectre's Head. Hipparchos and Pliny made a separate constellation of the Gorgon stars as the Head of Medusa, this descending almost to our own day, although always connected with Perseus. The Hebrews knew Algol as Rōsh ha Sātān, Satan's Head, Chilmead's Rosch hassatan, the Divels head; but also as Lilith, Adam's legendary first wife, the nocturnal vampyre from the lower world that reappeared in the demonology of the Middle Ages as the witch Lilis, one of the characters in Goethe's Walpurgis Nacht ...

... The myth is that Perseus was sent to cut off the head of the snaky-locked Gorgon Medusa, a rival of the Goddess Athene, whose baleful look turned men into stone, and that he could not accomplish the task until he had gone to the three Graeae, 'Grey Ones', the three old sisters of the Gorgons who had only one eye and one tooth between them, and by stealing eye and tooth had blackmailed them into telling him where the grove of the Three Nymphs was to be found. From the Three Nymphs he then obtained winged sandals like those of Hermes, a bag to put the Gorgon's head into, and a helmet of invisibility. Hermes also kindly gave him a sickle; and Athene gave him a mirror and showed him a picture of Medusa so that he would recognize her. He threw the tooth of the Three Grey Ones, and some say the eye also, into Lake Triton, to break their power, and flew on to Tartessus where the Gorgons lived in a grove on the borders of the ocean; there he cut off the sleeping Medusa's head with the sickle, first looking into the mirror so that the petrifying charm should be broken, thrust the head into his bag, and flew home pursued by other Gorgons ...

May 2 3 4 5 (125) 6 (*46) 7 (492)
°April 28 29 30 °May 1 (121) 2 (*42) 3
'April 5 (95) 6 7 8 (*18) 9 (99) 10 (465)
"March 22 23 24 (448) 25 (84) 26 (*370) 2-27
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 29 30 (242) 31 SEPT 1 2 (*165) 3 (246)
KOCHAB (Kakkab) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7)

KE KWAN (Cavalry Officer) = β Lupi (226.3), KE KWAN = κ Centauri (226.4), ZUBEN ELAKRIBI (Claw of the Scorpion) = δ Librae (226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9)

ω Bootis (227.2), NEKKAR (Herdsman) = β Bootis (227.3), σ Librae (227.5), π² Oct. (227.7), NADLAT (Mean Little Ones) = ψ Bootis (227.8), π Lupi (227.9)

15h (228.3)

ZUBEN HAKRABIM = ν Librae (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9)
ω Oct. (229.3), ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8)

Al Zubānā-14b (Claws)

χ Bootis (230.3), PRINCEPS = δ Bootis (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (Northern Claw) = β Librae (230.8)

... at the ancient time of Bharani the star at the North Pole was not Polaris but β Ursae Minoris - Kochab (as in Babylonian Kakkab = Star)

 ... Kochab was at the opposite side of the pole compared to Polaris, and thus also at the opposite side in the right ascension circle. It meant Kochab was not very far from the Full Moon when the Sun was at Polaris ...

Nov 1 2 3 (*227) 4 (308) 5 6 (310)
°Oct 28 29 30 31 (*224) °Nov 1 2
'Oct 5 6 7 (*200) 8 9 (282) 10
"Sept 21 EQUINOX  23 (*186) 24 25 (268) 26

From Situla to 'April 10 (100) in Roman times there were 70 days:

69

Gb2-23 (278)

Gb4-28 (348)

'Jan 30 (395)

'April 10 (465)

On side b of the C tablet there are 348 glyphs, and counting 70 glyphs backwards we will reach Cb12-4 (278):

413 = 14 * 29½

Gb2-1 (256)

Cb12-4 (392 + 278) = 414 - 256

DRAMASA (*320.0)

*304 + *16 = *320 20h (*304.4)
9h (*137.0) *137 - *121 = *16 NAOS (*121)

Like Dramasa the position of Argo Navis was very far down (or very high up as regarded by an observer on Easter Island).

The figure at the stern of the sinking canoe can be recognized as the Earth Turtle:

... It is an interesting fact, although one little commented upon, that myths involving a canoe journey, whether they originate from the Athapaskan and north-western Salish, the Iroquois and north-eastern Algonquin, or the Amazonian tribes, are very explicit about the respective places allocated to passengers. In the case of maritime, lake-dwelling or river-dwelling tribes, the fact can be explained, in the first instance, by the importance they attach to anything connected with navigation: 'Literally and symbolically,' notes Goldman ... referring to the Cubeo of the Uaupés basin, 'the river is a binding thread for the people. It is a source of emergence and the path along which the ancestors had travelled. It contains in its place names genealogical as well as mythological references, the latter at the petroglyphs in particular.' A little further on ... the same observer adds: 'The most important position in the canoe are those of stroke and steersman. A woman travelling with men always steers, because that is the lighter work. She may even nurse her child while steering ... On a long journey the prowsman or stroke is always the strongest man, while a woman, or the weakest or oldest man is at the helm ...