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4. An Act of Creation up in the sky ought to take 5 days, and its Sign could be the Rudder:
But anciently they had 2 oars for steering a ship (similar to the 2 wheels on a chariot), which gives us some perspective on why there is a great face resting on what looks like the true rudder to the left of the rudder with Canopus. Another illustration is more matter of fact on this point:
"Whatever Johann Bayer’s Uranographia of 1603 may have lacked in strict positional accuracy it more than made up for in artistic merit. Here the Argo is seen passing between the Clashing Rocks at the mouth of the Black Sea. Bayer depicts some of the ship’s oars splintering on the rocks, and the yard arm with the furled sail also appears to have snapped. The brilliant star Canopus lies on the blade of the portside steering oar, as described by Ptolemy." (http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/argo2.htm) Shouldn't Sirius indicate the other Steering Oar, the one on the star-board side? In Bayers drawing the starboard 'face' cannot be seen and according to the marvellous ship of Hevelius the star at the nose of the great face at the stern must be ν Puppis, this we can see by prolonging a line from α to β Columbae:
The star on the same board as Canopus is τ Puppis. Sirius is not in Argo Navis, but at the nose of Canis Major, rising 2 days after ν Puppis and 1 day earlier than τ Puppis:
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