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MAY 25 (145)	26 (*66)	27	28
Ga3-6	Ga3-7	Ga3-8	Ga3-9 (68)
Āshleshā-9 / Willow-24	Al Nathrah-6	Extended Net-26a / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12 (Southeast Star in the Crab)	ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)
π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ Hydrae (129.6), AL MINHAR AL SHUJĀ = σ Hydrae, MUSEIDA = π² Ursae Majoris (129.9) RAS ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)	BEEHIVE = ε Cancri, η Pyxidis (130.4), XESTUS = ο Velorum (130.5), ζ Pyxidis (130.7), ASCELLUS BOREALIS = γ Cancri, β Pyxidis (130.9)	η Hydrae (131.0), ASCELLUS AUSTRALIS = δ Cancri (131.4), KOO SHE (Bow and Arrow) = δ Velorum (131.6), α Pyxidis (131.8), ε Hydrae (131.9)
July 28	29 (*130)	30	31 (212)
°July 24	25	26 (*127)	27 (208)
'July 1	2	3 (*104)	4 (185)
"June 17	18	19 (*90)	20 (171)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 24	25	26 (*250)	27 (331)
ROTANEV = β Delphini, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN = α Delphini, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8)	μ², μ¹ Oct. (313.2), DENEB CYGNI = α Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6), δ Delphini (313.8)	Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 / Dhanishta-24 / Girl-10	BATEN ALGIEDI = ω Capricorni (315.8)
		YUE (Battle-Axe) = ψ Capricorni (314.3), GIENAH CYGNI = ε Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI = ε Aquarii (314.8) BETELGEUZE (α Orionis)
January 27 (392)	28	29 (*314)	30
°January 23	24	25 (*310)	26
'December 31	'January 1	2	3 (*288)
"December 17	18	19 (*273)	20 (354)

7	Al Tarf	End		ξ Cancri, λ Leonis (Alterf)	143.4	Aug 11 (223)		13	132
43 Al Tarf Ga4-21 (104) β Cancri (*124) β Crateris (*168)			Ga3-20 (79) λ Leonis (*143) Alterf "July 1				7 Ga3-14 The Knot ξ Cancri (*137) ι Hydrae (*145)

... When it was evident that the years lay ready to burst into life, everyone took hold of them, so that once more would start forth - once again - another (period of) fifty-two years. Then (the two cycles) might proceed to reach one hundred and four years. It was called 'One Age' when twice they had made the round, when twice the times of binding the years had come together. Behold what was done when the years were bound - when was reached the time when they were to draw the new fire, when now its count was accomplished. First they put out fires everywhere in the country round. And the statues, hewn in either wood or stone, kept in each man's home and regarded as gods, were all cast into the water. Also (were) these (cast away) - the pestles and the (three) hearth stones (upon which the cooking pots rested); and everywhere there was much sweeping - there was sweeping very clear. Rubbish was thrown out; none lay in any of the houses ...

MAY 29	30	31 (151)	JUNE 1	2 (*73)	3	4
Ga3-10	Ga3-11	Ga3-12	Ga3-13 (72)	Ga3-14	Ga3-15	Ga3-16
γ Pyxidis (133.6)	ζ Hydrae (134.1), ρ Cancri (134.2), ζ Oct. (134.3), ο Cancri (134.6), δ Pyxidis (134.9)	ACUBENS = α Cancri, TALITHA BOREALIS = ι Ursae Majoris (135.0), σ Cancri (135.2), ρ Ursa Majoris (135.6)	ν Cancri (136.0), TALITHA AUSTRALIS = κ Ursae Majoris (136.1), ω Hydrae (136.8)	9h (137.0)	κ Pyxidis (138.0), ε Pyxidis (138.5)	π Cancri (139.2), MIAPLACIDUS = β Carinae (139.3), TUREIS = ι Carinae (139.8)
				σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), τ Cancri (137.4), ALSUHAIL = λ Velorum (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)
August 1	2	3 (*500)	4 (216)	5	6	7
°July 28	29 (*130)	30	31	°August 1	2 (214)	3
'July 5	6 (*107)	7	8	9 (190)	10	11
SOLSTICE	"June 22 (*93)	23	ST JOHN'S DAY	Maro 25	26 (177)	27
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 28	29	30 (*254)	DECEMBER 1	2 (336)	3	4
μ Aquarii (316.0)	ε Equulei (317.8)	no star listed (318)	21h (319.6)	DRAMASA = σ Oct., χ Capricorni (320.0), ν Aquarii (320.3), γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis (320.8)	α Oct. (321.5), δ Equulei (321.7), φ Capricorni (321.8)	KITALPHA = α Equulei (322.0), ALDERAMIN = α Cephei (322.9)
			ARMUS = η Capricorni (319.0), DORSUM = θ Capricorni (319.3), TSOO = 24 Capricorni (319.7)
January 31	February 1	2	3	4 (400)	5 (36)	6
°January 27	28	29 (*314)	30	31 (396)	°February 1	2
'January 4	5 (*290)	6	7 (372)	8	9	10
SOLSTICE	"December 22	23	X-MAS EVE	25	26 (360)	27

JUNE 5	6 (157)
Ga3-17	Ga3-18 (77)
no star listed (140)	θ Pyxidis (141.5), MARKAB VELORUM = κ Velorum (141.5), AL MINHAR AL ASAD = κ Leonis (141.6), λ Pyxidis (141.9)
August 8 (220)	9
°August 4 (216)	5
'July 12 (193)	13 (*114)
"June 28 (*99)	29 (180)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
DECEMBER 5	6 (340)
DAI = ι Capricorni (323.5), β Equulei (323.8)	γ Pavonis (324.1), YAN = ζ Capricorni (324.6)
February 7 (403)	8 (*324)
°February 3 (399)	4 (*320)
'January 11 (*296)	12 (377)
"December 28 (*282)	29 (363)

JUNE 7 (*78)	8	9	10 (161)	11	12
Ga3-19 (78)	Ga3-20	Ga3-21	Ga3-22	Ga3-23	Ga3-24
The Knot (Ukdah)				Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)	VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)
Star-25 / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)	Al Tarf-7	A Hydrae (144.1) VEGA (α Lyrae)	UKDAH = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)	ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)
ALPHARD = α Hydrae (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7)	ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)
August 10	11	12	13	14 (*146)	15 (227)
°August 6	7	8 (220)	9	10	11 (*143)
'July 14	15	16	17 (*118)	18	19 (200)
SIRIUS	"July 1	2	3 (*104)	4 (185)	Anakena 5
NAKSHATRA DATES:
DECEMBER 7	8	9	10	11 (345)	12 (*266)
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny)					θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)
Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 / Emptiness-11	no star listed (326)	CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5) SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)	Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)	Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)
TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)			NASHIRA = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)	ENIF (the Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 Capricorni, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI =  δ Capricorni (329.8)
February 9 (40)	10	11 (407)	12	13 (*329)	All Hearts' Day
°February 5	6	7	8 (*324)	9 (40)	10
'January 13 (378)	14	15 (*300)	16	17	18 (383)
"December 30	31 (*285)	"January 1	2	3 (368)	4

... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'.

And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below'. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ...

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe.

The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...