Bb3.1 The path of the equinoxes went from Virgo to the Capricorn.
... Towards the end of the last Ice Age the sign of summer in front had been indicated by Virgo.
Accordingly, from there the Gate of the Goat would then be 12500 BC + AD 6200 = 18700 years ahead. And AD 6200 - 18700 / 2 = 3150 BC. Notably there was no room for a year 0 in the Gregorian calendar:
To count from Spica meant to count from the thong keeping the world order in place: ... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...
In contrast the B text was evidently beginning at a Gate of the Goat. For the Sun moved along the ecliptic path in the opposite direction compared to that of the precession.
We could therefore expect the B text to end at Spica (at the 'thong' leading up to the little Alcor together with Arundati). ... the lining up of Canopus with zeta, more often with Alcor, the tiny star near zeta (Tom Thumb, in Babylonia the 'fox'-star) has remained a rather constant feature, in Arabic Suhayl and as-Sura. This is the 'birth' of the valid representatives of both the poles, the sons of Mitra and Varuna and also of their successors ... ... The Arabs in the desert regarded it as a test of penetrating vision; and they were accustomed to oppose 'Suhel' to 'Suha' (Canopus to Alcor) as occupying respectively the highest and lowest posts in the celestial family. So that Vidit Alcor, et non lunam plenum, came to be a proverbial description of one keenly alive to trifles, but dull of apprehension for broad facts ... Or maybe to 3 days after Spica at Heze (ζ Virginis), or perhaps rather to 6 days after Spica at Benetnash (η Ursae Majoris):
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