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Bb7.2

Glyph line Bb7 was evidently intended to begin with Porrima (the Barker Dog → domesticated wolf) at the Full Moon

I.e., when the blinding rays from the Sun were oblitering from visibility the star of the Wolf (η Andromedae):

... 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 ...

Bb7-1 (665) Bb7-2 (245) Bb7-3 (273 + 365 + 29)
Ku rere mai ki te manu e tagata hakanaganaga ia ra mai tae moe
March 30 (454) 31 April 1 (456 = 365 + 91)
"May 8 (48) 9 10 (50 = 91 - 41)
JAN 25 (390) 26 27 (392 = 91 - 64)
HELIACAL STARS:

ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6)

*9.4 - *41.4 = *150.0 - 182.0 =

- *32.0

ACHIRD (Woman with Luminous Rays) = η Cassiopeiae (10.7)

Legs-15 (Wolf)

ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4)

*335.0 = *11.4 - *41.4
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
Sept 28 (271) → 728 = 2 * 364 29 (272 = 2 * 136) 30 (3 * 91 = 273)
"Aug 18 (230 = 271 - 41)

19

20

JULY 26 (207 = 271 - 64)

27 28

Al Áwwā'-11 (The Barker) / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur)

SOMBRERO GALAXY = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5)

*150.0 = *191.4 - *41.4
ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), MIMOSA = β Crucis (192.9) No star listed (193)

272 (September 29) - 64 (precessional depth down from the Fishes to the Bull) = 208 (JULY 27) = 181 (SIRIUS) + 27 ('thrice nine hallowed days').

... As has already been mentioned, the Delphians worshipped Dionysus once a year as the new-born child, Liknites, 'the Child in the Harvest Basket', which was a shovel-shaped basket of rush and osier used as a harvest basket, a cradle, a manger, and a winnowing-fan for tossing the grain up into the air against the wind, to separate it from the chaff. The worship of the Divine Child was established in Minoan Crete, its most famous early home in Europe. In 1903, on the site of the temple of Dictaean Zeues - the Zeus who was yearly born in Rhea's cave at Dicte near Cnossos, where Pythagoras spent 'thrice nine hallowed days' of his initiation - was found a Greek hymn which seems to preserve the original Minoan formula in which the gypsum-powdered, sword-dancing Curetes, or tutors, saluted the Child at his birthday feast. In it he is hailed as 'the Cronian one' who comes yearly to Dicte mounted on a sow and escorted by a spirit-throng, and begged for peace and plenty as a reward for their joyful leaps ...

On Easter Island they could in the last day of September have observed the Chinese Wolf station at the Full Moon and concluded that this was the day of the Balance between winter and summer, i.e. for them the summer half of the year (the season of leaf) was ahead.

... In north Asia the common mode of reckoning is in half-year, which are not to be regarded as such but form each one separately the highest unit of time: our informants term them 'winter year' and 'summer year'. Among the Tunguses the former comprises 6½ months, the latter 5, but the year is said to have 13 months; in Kamchatka each contains six months, the winter year beginning in November, the summer year in May; the Gilyaks on the other hand give five months to summer and seven to winter. The Yeneseisk Ostiaks reckon and name only the seven winter months, and not the summer months. This mode of reckoning seems to be a peculiarity of the far north: the Icelanders reckoned in misseri, half-years, not in whole years, and the rune-staves divide the year into a summer and a winter half, beginning on April 14 and October 14 respectively. But in Germany too, when it was desired to denote the whole year, the combined phrase 'winter and summer' was employed, or else equivalent concrete expressions such as 'in bareness and in leaf', 'in straw and in grass' ...