1. In the 6th right ascension hour the first star in the alphabetical order of my astronomy book is Alnilam. We have met ε Orionis earlier, viz. as the 'string of pearls' (cfr at Parehe) in the center of the constellation:
The belt of Orion should indicate the end of a cycle, similar to how the girdle of Andromeda is finishing such a cycle.
The blind Orion perhaps is blind because he has lost his head, like Jamadagni:
Sun is like a single blazing great head in the sky and he will be finished by water. Contrariwise the water of Moon could be dried up by 8 times 5 = 40 fiery fingers. Jamad-agni probably refers to a kind of fire (agni).
In the sky roof Orion seems to denote the end of the powerful spring sun, and this comes beyond Taurus, the wife of whom could be Kamadhenu (the mother of cows):
... Jamadagni was later killed by a Kshatriya king Kartavirya Arjuna, over a dispute over a divine calf named Kamadhenu...
(Sculpture of Kamadhenu at the Batu Caves, Malaysia.) |
