Bb10.2 Once again. In the C text Polaris (*26) was at the last glyph on side a of the tablet, with side b beginning at the Roman spring equinox = the First Point of Aries (Sheratan). As I have suggested this was in October 17 (290 = 107 + 183), i.e. half a year after April 17 in order to correspond to spring equinox south of the equator at the time of the Romans. Anciently they waited for the return to visibility at the horizon in the east. March 5 (64) + 16 = March 21 (80), and *166 + *16 = *182 (→ 364 / 2):
*166 (Dubhe) + *183 = *349 (Fom-al-Haut).
... For some reason, too, it had taken their fancy to place the Great Pyramid almost exactly on the 30th parallel at latitude 29º 58' 51". This, a former astronomer royal of Scotland once observed, was 'a sensible defalcation from 30º', but not necessarily in error: For if the original designer had wished that men should see with their body, rather than their mental eyes, the pole of the sky from the foot of the Great Pyramid, at an altitude before them of 30º, he would have had to take account of the refraction of the atmosphere, and that would have necessitated the building standing not at 30º but at 29º 58' 22' ... Once upon a time Dubhe had been the north pole star
and at that time the northern spring equinox might have been connected with Fom-al-Haut. ... Dubb, more generally Dubhe, the Bear, is the abbreviation of the Arabians' Thahr al Dubb al Akbar, the Back of the Greater Bear, Dubb being first found in the Alfonsine Tables. Al Bīrūnī said that it was the Hindu Kratu, the Rishi or Sage. Lockyer asserts that it was Āk, the Eye, i.e. the prominent one of the constellation, utilized in the alignment of the walls of the temple of Hathor of Denderah, and the orientation point of that structure perhaps before 5000 B.C.; at all events, before the Thigh became circumpolar, about 4000 B.C. This was in the times of the Hor-she-shu, the worshipers of Horus, before the reign of Mena, when the star had a declination of over 64°, - now about 62° 24'. Mena, Menes, or Min was the first historic king of Egypt, his date being variously given from 5867 B.C. to 3892 B.C., Flinders Petrie making it, from astronomical data, 4777 B.C. And he finds two other temples also so oriented. As typifying a goddess of Egypt, it was Bast Isis and Taurt Isis. The Chinese know it as Tien Choo, Heaven's Pivot, and as Kow Ching ... Because the site at the north pole should correspond to a resting place for those who had died (†) = the opposite of the place for birth (*) at the horizon in the east → Bharani. ... The ancient Egyptians observed the stars and the circumpolar stars they regarded as qualitatively different from the ordinary stars which arrived at the eastern horizon and later disappeard behind the western horizon. The circumpolar stars had a circular motion, whereas the ordinary ones went straight across the sky ... ... The name [Benetnash] derives from the Arabic phrase meaning 'The leader of the daughters of the bier'. The daughters of the bier, i.e. the mourning maidens, are the three stars of the handle of the Big Dipper, Alkaid, Mizar, and Alioth; while the four stars of the bowl, Megrez, Phecda, Merak, and Dubhe, are the bier ...
... At Mangaia the spirits of those who ignobly died 'on a pillow' wandered about disconsolately over the rocks near the margin of the sea until the day appointed by their leader comes (once a year). Many months might elapse ere the projected departures of the ghost took place. This weary interval was spent in dances and revisiting their former homes, where the living dwell affectionately remembered by the dead. At night fall they would wander amongst the trees and plantations nearest to these dwellings, sometimes venturing to peep inside. As a rule these ghosts were well disposed towards their own living relatives; but often became vindictive if a pet child was ill-treated by a stepmother or other relatives etc. ... Eventually the spirits would depart from known reinga, spirit leaping-places. Such leaping-places also existed on other islands. Even after this departure some spirit intrusions from the underworld were possible ... Presumably Dramasa (the south pole star) was the destination of rest in peace for that half the population who had been born closer to the northern autumn equionox (= southern spring equionox) than the northern spring equinox (= southern autumn equinox). *320 (Dramasa) - *26 (Polaris) = *294. ... Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ... DECEMBER 9 (343 → 7 * 7 * 7) + 16 = DECEMBER 25 (corresponding to the Julian spring equinox in MARCH 25). *320 (Dramasa) - *184 = *136 (Alcyone) who was the Queen of Sailing (moving quickly on the waters), ... another Alcyone, daughter of Pleione, 'Queen of Sailing', by the oak-hero Atlas, was the mystical leader of the seven Pleiads. The heliacal rising of the Pleiads in May marked the beginning of the navigational year; their setting marked its end when (as Pliny notices in a passage about the halcyon) a remarkably cold North wind blows ... to be contrasted with the pair of pillars standing still, viz. Dramasa and the Pillar-to-fish-by (Polaris). ... I became curious about this star ... called Nuutuittuq [= 'never moves'] ... So, on the lee side of our uquutaq (a snow windbreak) I positioned a harpoon pointing directly at this particular star to see if it would move. In the morning I checked it and discovered that the Tukturjuit (Ursa Major) had changed their position completely but the harpoon still pointed at this star ... I had discovered the stationary star ... The first glyph in line Bb10 could allude to the right ascension position of Sirius (*101). And in August 10 the Sun had been at Alphard with the the Full Moon at Sadalsud:
Alphard was the 'fish' at the top of the mast of Argo Navis and Sadalsud (β Aquarii) was half a year away where life was bound to begin its merry-go-round anew.
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