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Beyond 23h there was only half a month to 0h. Presumably the way (the path for the Sun king) was being prepared during this phase of the development.

... 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.' ...

manu rere kua moe koia i toona tahoga kua pu haki pu ka pu era

Tahoga. Figurine made of wood or of stone, in the shape of a heart, which used to be worn on the chest. Vanaga. Spherical pendant of wood worn around the neck. Fischer. Kaona, a Hawaiian word that means 'veiled meaning or symbolism'. D'Alleva.

... His temple-palace was composed of four radiant apartments: one toward the east, yellow with gold; one towards the west, blue with turquoise and jade; one toward the south, white with pearls and shells; one towards the north, red with bloodstones - symbolizing the cardinal quarters of the world over which the light of the sun holds sway. And it was set wonderfully above a mighty river that passed through the midst of the city of Tula; so that every night, precisely at midnight, the king descended into the river to bathe; and the place of his bath was called 'In the Painted Vase', or 'In the Precious Waters' ...

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

Ca13-7 (350) Ca13-8 (13 * 27) Ca13-9 (*272 → 2 * 136) Ca13-10 (*273 → 3 * 91)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 31 (365) JAN 1 2 3 (*288)
March 5 (430 - 366 = 64) 6 (65 = 365 - 300) 7 (31 + 28 + 7 = 66) 8
'Febr 7 (38 + 365 = 403) 8 (404 - 39 = 365) 9 (40 = 366 - 326) 10

Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 (Fore Spout) / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 (First of the Blessed Feet) / House-13 (Pig)

SCHEAT PEGASI = β Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI = α Pegasi (349.5)

*308.0 = *349.4 - *41.4

23h (350.0 = 167.4 + 182.6)

υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9)
ŠIM-MAH = γ Piscium (351.7) φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae (352.8)
 
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JULY 2 3 (184 = 248 - 64) 4 (185 = 225 - 40) 5
Sept 4 (613 - 366 = 247) 5 (248 = 65 + 183) 6 7
11h (167.4)

χ Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3)

*167.4 - *41.4 = *126.0

AL SHARAS (The Ribs) = β Crateris (168.6)

Al Zubrah-9 (Mane) / Purva Phalguni-11 (First Reddish One - Fig Tree)

ZOSMA (Girdle, not Belt) = δ Leonis (169.2), COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis (169.4)

*169.4 - *41.4 = *128.0

φ Leonis (170.0), ALULA (First Spring of the Gazelle) = ξ, ν Ursae Majoris (170.5), LABRUM = δ Crateris (170.6)

... God created Eve from one of Adam's ribs and therefore I at first tried to translate the female (β) star name Al Sharas with The Rib. Although according to Allen this star was plural: '... β ... was one of Al Tizini's Al Sharāsīf, the Ribs, - i.e. of the Hydra, - and the first of the set.' Adam had, as I remember it, another wife before Eve, viz. Lilith ...

... In the hare paenga foundation form, the komari is cut in stone and embedded in the earth, the cosmologically female realm. Spanning above, over and virtually into this komari foundation is the ridgepole 'backbone' and curved rafter 'ribs' of what I surmise to be a symbolically male form. In short, we have a shelter which may be metaphorically understood as 'the sky father enclosing his progeny as he embraces the earth'. Those progeny entered and departed this male/female, earth/sky form through a low, dark tunnel which may be logically compared to the birth canal ...

e toru gagata, tuhuga nui, tuhuga roa, tuhuga marakapa* - ma te hokohuki te tapamea - te kihikihi

* Jaussen: kapa chant.

te vaha erua - te maro tagata kara te roturotu - te maro ka pu te niu - mai tae huki hia ka pu te niu

Kapa. Mgv.: a song for the dead, chant. Mq.: kapa, a heathen song. Mgv.: aka-kapakapa, an eager desire balked by timidity. Ta.: apaapa, to flutter the wings. To.: kabakaba, id. Ma.: kapakapa, to flutter. Churchill. Tu.: Kapakapa, portion, particle. Ta.: apaapaa, fragment, bit, chip. Churchill. In Polynesia gliding flight is expressed by lele, flight on flapping wing by kapa. In Nuclear Polynesia kapa does not pass into the wing sense except through the aid of a composition member kau. In Samoan 'au we find this to mean a stalk, a handle; in reference to the body its sense as that of some projecting member is exhibited in 'aualuma (the 'au in front) as a very delicate euphemism for the penis. So 'apa'au would mean literally the projecting member that flaps. Churchill 2.

Niu. Palm tree, coconut tree; hua niu, coconut. Vanaga. Coconut, palm, spinning top.  P Pau., Ta.: niu, coconut. Mgv.: niu, a top; niu mea, coconut. Mq.: niu, coconut, a top. Churchill. The fruit of miro. Buck. T. 1. Coconut palm. 2. Sign for peace. Henry. The sense of top lies in the fact that the bud end of a coconut shell is used for spinning, both in the sport of children and as a means of applying to island life the practical side of the doctrine of chances. Thus it may be that in New Zealand, in latitudes higher than are grateful to the coconut, the divination sense has persisted even to different implements whereby the arbitrament of fate may be declared. Churchill 2.

Ca13-11 (354) Ca13-12 Ca13-13 Ca13-14 Ca13-15
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JAN 4 5 (*290) 6 7 8
March 9 (68) 10 11 (436 = 409 + 27) 12 13 (72)
'Febr 11 12 (408) 13 14 15 (46 = 72 - 26)
"Jan 27 (392) 28 29 (*314) 30 31 (396)
ο Cephei (353.3), KERB (Bucket Rope) = τ Pegasi (353.6) κ Piscium (354.2), θ Piscium (354.4), υ Pegasi (354.9)

*313.0 = *354.4 - *41.4

ο Gruis, Snowball Nebula = NGC7662 Andromedae (355.0), τ Oct. (355.3) No star listed (356) ι Phoenicis (357.3), ι Piscium (357.4), λ Andromedae (357.9)

*316.0 = *357.4 - *41.4

... With α Andromedae [Sirrah → Navel] and γ Pegasi [Kerb], as the Three Guides, it [Caph → Phoenician Kaph, Hand] marks the equinoctial colure, itself exceedingly close to that great circle; and, being located on the same side of the pole as is Polaris, it always affords an approximate indication of the latter's position with respect to that point. This same location, 32º from the pole, and very near to the prime meridian, has rendered it useful for marking sidereal time. When above Polaris and nearest the zenith the astronomical day begins at 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds; when due west the sidereal time is 6 hours; when south and nearest the horizon, 12 hours, and when east, 18 hours; this celestial clockhand then moving on the heavenly dial contrary to the motion of the hands of our terrestrial clocks, and at but one half the speed ...

... τ, 4.5, with υ, was Al Sufi's Sa'd al Na'amah, which Knobel thinks should be Al Na'āim, the Cross-bars over a well; but they also were known as Al Karab, the Bucket-rope. The usual titles for τ - Markab and Sagma or Salma - are from Bayer, but the last two should be Salm, a Leathern Bucket ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
σ Leonis (171.1), λ Crateris (171.6), ι Leonis, ε Crateris (171.9)

γ Crateris,  π Centauri (172.0), κ Crateris (172.5), τ Leonis (172.8)

GREDI (α Capricorni)
ο¹ Centauri (173.8) GIAUZAR = λ Draconis (174.0), ξ Hydrae (174.3), ο² Centauri, λ Centauri (174.8) θ Crateris (175.0), υ Leonis (175.2), ω Virginis (175.3), ι Crateris (175.5)
JULY 6 7 (188) 8 9 10
Sept 8 9 10 11 (254) 12

These Three Guides could have been in the mind of the creator of the C text when he designed his glyph number 354.

τ Pegasi

*353.6

Caph

*0.5

Sirrah

*0.5

Algenib

*1.8

For the irregular object in front could have depicted the Andromeda constellation together with ashes (te kihikihi):

... the oak had made trouble right from the start. When (in the second rune of the Kalevala) Sämpsä Pellervöinen had sowed trees, it was the oak alone that would not grow until four or five lovely maidens from the water, and a hero from the ocean, had cleared the ground with fire and planted an acorn in the ashes; and once it had started, the growth of the tree could not be stopped ...

Kihikihi, lichen; also: grey, greenish grey, ashen. Vanaga.

We should remember my suggestion of the picture in glyph number 77 as a map of Auriga:

76

276

Ca4-1 (77)

Ca13-11 (354)

A glyph illustration could refer to a stretch of right ascension days, as for instance in the Hindu system:

PEGASUS:
26 Purva Bhādrapadā

the first of the blessed feet

α (Markab) and β Pegasi (Scheat)

Markab

Swords or two front legs of funeral cot, man with two faces March 5 (429)
27 Uttara Bhādrapadā

the second of the blessed feet

γ Pegasi (Algenib) and α Andromedae (Sirrah)

Algenib

Twins, back legs of funeral cot, snake in the water March 22 (446)

2 + 2 = 4.

... Interestingly, since another meaning of shi is 'death', the number 4 is considered unlucky. For example, the floor numbering in hotels sometimes jumps mysteriously from 3 to 5; it is also considered unlucky to give four of something as a present ...