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1. Below Orion is the Lepus (the Hare) constellation and even further down is Columba (the Dove):

Arneb (α Leporis) has been mentioned earlier, at Faa-iti, and we know its position. In Columba the brightest star is Phakt:

Arneb

α Leporis

2.58 17º 51' S 05h 31m 84.0 492.0 490¾
Phakt

α Columbae

2.65 34º 06' S 05h 38m 85.7 493.7 492½

In the order of time-space according to G these feminine stars - they are located in the 'cup' part of the sky and, moreover, both hares and doves are easily frightened - evidently appear when the darkness of winter solstice is about to end respectively where the new season is about to be born:

Ga1-11 (484) Ga1-12 (485)
Almaaz (483.7), Haedus I (483.8) Haedus II (484.9)
End (tagata) Beginning (hanau)
Ga1-13 Ga1-14 (487)
 λ (485.7) Rigel (487.1), Capella (487.4)
Ga1-15 (*80) Ga1-16 Ga1-17 Ga1-18 Ga1-19 (492)
  Bellatrix (489.7), Saif al Jabbar (489.7) Elnath (489.9)  Mintaka (491.4)   Arneb (492.0), Heka (492.2), Hatysa (492.5)
Rahu
Ga1-20 (493) Ga1-21
Alnilam (492.7), Heavenly Gate (493.0) Alnitak (493.7), Phakt (493.7)
'Pyramid of Khafre' 'Pyramid of Khufu'
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 (496) Ga1-24 (*89) Ga1-25 Ga1-26 (*91)
Saiph (495.5) Betelgeuze (497.3) Praja-pāti, Menkalinan, and Mahashim (498.3)
Atariki