If glyph line a3 was reserved for the time when Sun becomes separated from Earth, from then on rising higher and higher towards midsummer, and given that we 'translate' line a3 as 'Pisces', then the preceding glyph line a2 could correspond to 'Aquarius':  If pare in *Qa2-40 should represent day 240, which we have found quite possible, then its location at Te Pei could correspond (or allude) to Aquarius, another dark sign. From Te Pei to Roto Iri Are there are 5 * 29.5 = 147½ days. We have counted to 160 days between pare and haati, which gives a month 'measured by the Sun' as 32 days:
In the Dendera zodiac we can find the 8th month ('Te Pei') at Leo 'in the sky' (6 months beyond Aquarius). He is the only sign in a boat high in the sky, but there is also the bluemarked Sothis cow. Also this sign is 6 months beyond Aquarius. The central bluemarked signs seem to be approximately as far away from spring equinox north of the equator as their corresponding blackmarked signs. The bluemarked belong in the south and the blackmarked in the north, but they appear close together in time. During summer (north of the equator) Sky (Sun) and Earth are separated because the ecliptic path 'forces' Sun (with his blackmarked zodiacal constellations) above the equator of the sky dome, while the bluemarked signs continue to follow the sky equator (e.g. Orion). But the bluemarked signs are also 12 in number. They are cramped together in summer and therefore Leo is not precisely above the Sothis cow. If we extrapolate we can from Leo (respectively from Sothis) move clockwise 5 Sun signs ahead in order to search for Roto Iri Are. The blackmarked 'goat-fish' (Capricorn) is sign number 13 given that we have Aquarius as number 2. Of course Capricorn is also number 1 (because there are 12 blackmarked signs). The 'goat-fish' is expressing a radical change involving land (goat) and water (fish). The renewal comes in station 'one more' (than 12). Iri-are is a kind of sea-weed (surface-of-the-water plant). The 13th bluemarked sign - given Aquarius as number 2 and also counted - is the backward looking lion with his paws on a water basin. Once again land and water together seem to signify a 'station of renewal' (12 + 1). Above this lion is Libra with a sun child (Harpokrates) on top. |
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