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Ba1.4

The Chinese tried to find out the future by drilling holes in the carapace of a turtle:

Such future-telling was, however, much like a game of hazard - there was no certainty:

... Before the beginning of a new 'year' (= halfyear) it is not yet determined what will come. According to the Babylonian view there was a chamber of hazard where the sky roof meets earth ...

Likewise was the coco-nut carapace (niu) twirled around at the beginning of the year::

... 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 ...

We have seen that the glyph type niu occurs in the B text where St George encountered the Dragon (Tiamat, etc):

niu

Bb11-33

FEBR 5 (36 = 52 - 16) 6 (466 - 64 = 402) 11 FEBR 18 (414 = 65 - 16) 54 APRIL 24 (485 - 16)

Bb11-20 Bb11-21 (860) Bb11-33 (451)

Bb12-45 (506)

April 10 (100) 11 (466) April 23 (St George †) June 17 (168)
The Knee (*20) δ Phoenicis (*21) Mira = ο Ceti (*33)

Betelgeuze (*88)

71 Virginis (*203) No star listed (*204) Khambalia (*216.4) Etamin (*271)
Oct 10 (648 = 664 - 16) 11 (284 = 300 - 16) Oct 23 (414 - 118) Dec 17 (351 = 9 * 39)

At Ba1-21 something similarly drastic may have occurred, because the central part of the glyph is absent. Or hidden:

Ba1-19 Ba1-20
OCT 19 (292) 20

ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS = μ Sagittarii (275.9)

MENKAR (α Ceti)
η Sagittarii (276.9)
Dec 22 (356) 23
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
APRIL 19 20 (110)

Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

*52.0 = *93.4 - *41.4
FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)
June 22 23 (174)
Ba1-21 → 11 * 11 Ba1-22 Ba1-23 Ba1-24 Ba1-25
OCT 21 22 23 (296) 24 25
KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9)

φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL  ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle) = μ Lyrae (278.6)

*237.0 = *278.4 - *41.4
KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii (279.3)

ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9)

*239.0 = *280.4 - *41.4

Abhijit-22 (Victorious)

θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)
Christmas Eve Dec 25 26 (360) 27 28

... That the Sun-gods Dionysus, Apollo and Mithras were all also reputedly born at the Winter solstice is well known, and the Christian Church first fixed the Nativity feast of Jesus Christ at the same season, in the year A.D. 273 [→ 3 * 91]. St. Chrysostom, a century later, said that the intention was that 'while the heathen were busied with their profane rites the Christians might perform their holy ones without disturbance', but justified the date as suitable for one who was 'the Sun of Righteousness' ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
APRIL 21 (111) 22 23 24 25 (460 / 4)

Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS (Canopy) = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4
No star listed (96) β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) No star listed (98)

ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

*58.0 = *99.4 - *41.4

GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)
St John's Day´(175) June 25 26 (354 / 2) 27 28

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... 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 ...

Ba1-26 Ba1-27 Ba1-28 Ba1-29 Ba1-30
OCT 26 27 (300) 28 29 30
No star listed (282)

ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8)

*242.0 = *283.4 - *41.4

South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)

Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)

SHELIAK (Tortoise) = β Lyrae, ν Lyrae (285.1), ο Draconis (285.5). λ Pavonis (285.7)

ATLAS (27 Tauri)

χ Oct. (286.0), AIN AL RAMI (Eye of the Archer) = ν Sagittarii (286.2), υ Draconis (286.4), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), ALYA (Fat Tail) = θ Serpentis (286.6)

*245.0 = *286.4 - *41.4
Dec 29 30 (364) 31 Jan 1 (366) 2
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
APRIL 26 27 28 (118) 29 30 (120)
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched)  = ε Gemini (100.7)

SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)

*60.0 = *101.4 - *41.4

τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4)

*61.0 = *102.4 - *41.4

Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins of the Shepherd)

θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA = γ Gemini (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9)
ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris (104.8)
June 29 30 (181) July 1 (118 + 64) 2 3

Sirius was the pivotal point,

... 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 ... In ancient Egypt they thought Sirius was behind the yearly rise of the Nile ... the seasonal cycle, throughout the ancient world, was the foremost sign of rebirth following death, and in Egypt the chronometer of this cycle was the annual flooding of the Nile ...

marking the center of the Egyptian X asterism:

In the C text, this symbol has been placed at the solstice in Roman times, viz. at χ Carinae. Here was the point of turning around from moving up to moving down:

75 40
Ca1-1 Ca4-1 Ca4-2 (78) Ca5-14 Ca5-15 (120) Ca5-16
koia kua tupu te rakau kua tupu - te kihikihi kua haga te mea ke manu puoko i tona ahi kua heu te huki
Sept 21 (264) Dec 6 7 (341) 17 (341 + 41) 18 (200 + 183) Jan 19 (384)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)
75 μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)  ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

40 DRUS (Hard) = χ Carinae (119.9) ω Cancri (120.2)

8h (121.7)

χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS (Ship) = ζ Puppis (121.3)
March 22 (446) June 6 (157) 7 (523) July 18 19 (200) 20 (566)
'Febr 23 (419) 'May 10 (130) 11 (496) Solstice 'June 22 (173) 23
"Febr 9 (405) "April 26 (116) 27 (482) "June 7 8 (159) 9
JAN 17 (382) APRIL 3 (93) 4 (459) MAY 15 (500) 16 (120 + 16) 17

And there was a piece missing, probably depicted as glyph (day) number 121 (→ Bharani):

ARIES:
Ashvini

wife of the Ashvins

β and γ Arietis

Sheratan and Mesarthim

Horse's head April 17 (107)
Bharani

the bearer

35, 39, and 41 Arietis

 Musca Borealis

Yoni, the female organ of reproduction May 1 (121)
TAURUS:
Krittikā

the nurses of Kārttikeya

M 45 Tauri

The Pleiades

Knife or spear May 15 (135)
Rohini

the red one

α Tauri

Aldebaran

Cart or chariot, temple, banyan tree May 28 (107 + 41)

... The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish.

They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin ...

Or as it was explained in Polynesia: there was a change of sex:

... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...

The reason seems to be the conjuntion between Canopus (Agastya, Eridu) and Mirzam (β at the right front paw of Canis Major), cfr Ba1-21 (→ day 121 = Beltane):

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...