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2. Allen:

"ο¹, ο², π¹, π², ...and g, all of the 4th to the 5th magnitude, in a vertical line at the right of the figure, indicate the lion's skin; but Al Tizini said that they were the Persians' Al Tāj, the Crown, or Tiara, of their kings; and the Arabians' Al Kumm, the Sleeve of the garment in which they dressed the Giant, the skin being omitted ..."

π3 Orionis

3.19

06° 58′ N

04h 47m

72.8

480.8

π2

4.35

08° 54′ N

04h 48m

73.1

481.1

π4

3.68

05° 36′ N

04h 48m

ο1

4.71

14° 15′ N

04h 50m

73.6

481.6

π5

3.71

02° 26′ N

04h 51m

73.8

481.8

g

5.18

11° 26′ N

04h 52m

74.1

482.1

π1

4.64

10° 09′ N

04h 52m

ο2

4.06

13° 31′ N

04h 53m

74.3

482.3

π6

4.47

01° 43′ N

04h 56m

75.1

483.1

Hassaleh

ι Aurigae

2.69

33° 05′ N

04h 54m

74.6

482.6

Cursa

β Eridani

2.78

05° 09′ S

05h 05m

77.4

485.4

Rigel

β Orionis

0.18

08° 15′ S

05h 12m

79.1

487.1

Ga1-7 (480) Ga1-8 Ga1-9 Ga1-10 Ga1-11 (484)
 'Skin of the Lion'  Hassaleh (482.6)
Ga1-12 (485) Ga1-13 Ga1-14
Cursa (485.4)   Rigel (487.1)
End of the River

480 is twice 240 and an important astronomical number because it is also 10 times the number of constellations once determined by Ptolemy.

480 + 481 + 482 + 483 = 1926 can be regarded as 19 followed by 26, and 19 + 26 = 45 = 360 / 8.

19 is the number for the odd last solar month with 5 dark nights necessary to reach 365. This is where Nut was allowed to give birth:

...Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

Also on Easter Island there was a special place outside regulated time, viz. the 26th kuhane station:

Te Pu Mahore

Te Poko Uri

1

Te Manavai

8

Hatinga Te Kohe

15

Maunga Teatea

2

Te Kioe Uri

9

Roto Iri Are

16

Mahatua

3

Te Piringa Aniva

10

Tama (*)

17

Taharoa

4

Te Pei

11

One Tea (†)

18

Hanga Hoonu

5

Te Pou

12

Hanga Takaure

19

Rangi Meamea

6

Hua Reva

13

Poike

20

Peke Tau O Hiti

7

Akahanga (†)

14

Pua Katiki

21

Maunga Hau Epa

22

Oromanga

23

Hanga Moria One

24

Papa O Pea

25

Ahu Akapu

birthplace of the new king

residence of the current king

residence for the future king

residence for the abdicated king

26 Te Pito O Te Kainga

1926 can alternatively be regarded as 192 followed by 6, where 192 days is a measure of the front side and 6 (= 13 - 7) could be a measure of the back side:

280 176
Gb8-26 (468) Gb8-27 Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30 (472) Ga7-7 (177)
182
3
Ga7-11 Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14 Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17 (**192)
10

From Zaurak (the 'boat') in Gb8-26 to glyph number 480 there are 5 + 7 = 12 days.

1926 = 6 * 321 can be interpreted as 6 months of winter together with 321, which can be used to illustrate the reverse of the figure 123 (cfr at The Tail Feathers and at Algenib). I.e., instead of an increasing 1, 2, 3, ... - like the increasing growth in spring - it is the entropy which is increasing in winter.

Twice 123 = 246 could indicate the point of turning around at Capricorn (cfr at Ksora and Segin):

152
Ga4-5 (*153) Ga4-6 (90) Ga4-7
Leo (?)
93
Ga7-15 (*249) Ga7-16 (186) Ga7-17
Scorpio (?)
57
Gb1-15 (*309) Gb1-16 (246) Gb1-17
Capricorn (?)