4. The stars in Pisces are faint and we have so far not listed any more than α (Alrisha). We should investigate to find out if the glyphs prior to Gb7-27 can be linked to stars in Pisces, and also to see if there are any clues to the names of the early kuhane stations and to the activities of the explorers and their king at these places.
There are lots of stars between α and σ on one hand and α and β on the other. For practical reasons we can leave those below the Square of Pegasus to some other time. The first star to appear in the east will then be δ:
420 = 6 * 70 = 7 * 60 is one of the few points where Sun and Moon can be imagined to meet, and day number 420 (= 483 - 7 * 9) could indicate where the old year is ending. ... Allen does not mention Achird and he has no other name for η Cassiopejae, but I guess the star could be connected with α Leonis, Regulus, once named Achir (Possessing Luminous Rays): Naturally sharing the character of its constellation as the Domicilium Solia, in Euphratean astronomy it was Gus-ba-ra, the Flame, or the Red Fire, of the House of the East; in Khorasmia, Achir, Possessing Luminous Rays; and throughout classical days the supposed cause of the summer's heat, a reputation that it shared with the Dog-star ... The name Achird could be a female variant of Achir (cfr the god Ra and his goddess Rat in ancient Egypt) and therefore point at Moon rather than Sun. Linteum is probably referring to the band which connects the southern (Moon) fish to Alrisha: "The uniting cords, branching from α through ο, π, η, and ρ to the tail of the northernmost Fish, and through ξ, ν, μ, f, e, ζ, ε, and δ [note the reversed order of the letters] to ω that marks the tail of the one to the south, were Ptolemy's λίνον, 'thread', the λίνοι of other authors. Cicero called them Vincla, the Bonds; and the scholiast on Germanicus, Alligamentum linteum or luteum, divided by Hevelius into Linum boreum and austrinum. Some of these terms also were applied to the star δ as marking one of the cords." (Allen)
If we should think the glyphs Gb7-8--9 are depicting events in Pisces we can imagine the band which connects the pair of ends in the puo sign as the band connecting Alrisha with Linteum. Such a band can be thought of as uniting time prior to δ with time beyond α, and such a joint in time could have the form of puo, I think:
Yesterday evening I happened to observe (in a TV documentary) how the ancient buildings of the old African kingdom Aksum (comparable to the contemporary Rome, Persia, and China) had their interior walls joined to the exterior walls by wooden beams with exactly the shape of the puo glyph type:  The stone 'bricks' constituting the walls are stabilized by horizontal long wooden beams and by the shorter 'puo' beams oriented at right angles to the walls. Although not easy to see in the picture above the ends of the these shorter beams - named monkey heads - are sticking out. Alrisha and Linteum can be compared to such monkey heads, and implicitly then the time between these 'monkey heads' will be in complete darkness, inside the walls.
Mirach (β Andromedae) - which marks the girdle of the 'woman in chains' - is rising 5 days beyond glyph number 420:
The girdle probably is a sign for a circuit completed and a girdle is also a string of cloth (cfr at Saturn): ... β [Andromedae] appeared in very early drawings as the lucida of the northern of the two Fishes, and marked the 26th manzil Al Batn al Hūt, the Belly of the Fish, or Al Kalb al Hūt, the Heart of the Fish; and the corresponding sieu Goei, or Kwei, the Man Striding, or the Striding Legs anciently Kwet. In this location it was Al Rishā, the Band, Cord, Ribbon, or Thread, as being on the line uniting the Fishes; but this title now belongs to α Piscium ... |
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