Ba1.2 The text continues with a group of 5 more glyphs ending in a similar way. Notably the ordinal numbers in the glyph line are corresponding to the ordinal numbers for APRIL (Full Moon) and OCTOBER (Sun):
When the Sun reached December 13 (a week before the northern winter solstice) he was in need of refueling. ... The fuel of the midsummer fires is always oak, the fire of Vesta at Rome was fed with oak, and the need-fire is always kindled in an oak-log ...
At this time of the year the face of the Full Moon could be seen at APRIL 10 (100), i.e. in the Golden Age of the Bull the last star in the Belt of Orion (ζ, Alnitak, the Girdle) had been here.
But then the precession would have moved Alnitak ahead with *64 right ascension days to June 13 (100 + 64 = 164). Up in the north, in Sweden, December 13 (529 - 183 = 346) is still remembered as the night when new fire was brought by Lucia:
... Obviously this time of the year once must have been a kind of 'candlemas'. Precession makes the dates of celebration move earlier and earlier, and according to the Julian calendar December 13 was the darkest day in the year. Thus the day of Lucia (who has a crown of candles in her hair) is expressing the same idea as Candlemas. No wonder people in the street here in Sweden had no explanation for Kyndelsmäss - in Sweden the candles are instead kindled 12 days before Christmas Day ...
... The manner of his death can be reconstructed from a variety of legends, folk-customs and other religious survivals. At mid-summer, at the end of a half-year reign, Hercules is made drunk with mead and led into the middle of a circle of twelve stones arranged around an oak, in front of which stands an altar-stone; the oak has been lopped until it is T-shaped. He is bound to it with willow thongs in the 'five-fold bond' which joins wrists, neck, and ankles together, beaten by his comrades till he faints, then flayed, blinded, castrated, impaled with a mistletoe stake, and finally hacked into joints on the altar-stone. His blood [vai-ku-ra] is caught in a basin and used for sprinkling the whole tribe to make them vigorous and fruitful. The joints are roasted at twin fires of oak-loppings, kindled with sacred fire preserved from a lightning-blasted oak or made by twirling an alder- or cornel-wood fire-drill in an oak log. The trunk is then uprooted and split into faggots which are added to the flames. The twelve merry-men rush in a wild figure-of-eight dance around the fires, singing ecstatically and tearing at the flesh with their teeth. The bloody remains are burnt in the fire, all except the genitals and the head. These are put into an alder-wood boat and floated down the river to an islet; though the head is sometimes cured with smoke and preserved for oracular use. His tanist succeeds him and reigns for the remainder of the year, when he is sacrificially killed by a new Hercules ... North of the equator December was a dark month, but south of the equator the dark month was June. According to the Mayas the path of the Sun here went through a Turtle:
I have also integrated the positions of the 3 great Egyptian pyramids ('stone heaps') in my presentation above, because they could clearly be set in parallel with the 3 great stars ('stones') in the Belt of Orion (Tau-toru).
... the real surprise revealed by Bauval's astronomical calculations was this: despite the fact that some aspects of the Great Pyramid did relate astronomically to the Pyramid Age, the Giza monuments as a whole were so arranged as to provide a picture of the skies (which alter their appearance down the ages as a result of the precession of the equinoxes) not as they had looked in the Fourth Dynasty around 2500 BC, but as they had looked - and only as they had looked - around the year 10,450 BC ...
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