5. The idea of a dog for both Sirius and Toliman possibly was used in order to signify a creature of lesser stature than a man, yet still with the meaning of 'end'. In the Chinese matrix of correspondences the animal was connected with Venus and with the direction west.
The nose is the major sense organ of a dog. But 11h (the current rectascension value for Dubhe) means the beginning of 'one more': ... The 11th animal was the Dog. Although he was supposed to be the best swimmer, he could not resist the temptation to play a little longer in the river. Though his explanation for being late was because he needed a good bath after a long spell. For that, he almost didn't make it to finish line ... In ancient Egypt Sirius was considered to be the cause of the deluge of the Nile (another river), when the agricultural year was beginning anew. With side a of the G tablet as its front side we possibly could find Antares (110m after Toliman) as glyph number 110:
Anyhow, we can understand why Dubhe was chosen as a star pillar - it fits well together with both Spica and Toliman, and by its current rectascension number 11h it could indicate a new beginning:
Where in the zodiac is Ana-tipu?
Counting 3 blue signs before Toliman we will find Spica. Therefore we ought to count 9 (= 3 * 216 / 72) signs before Toliman, which evidently carries us to the beginning of spring (north of the equator). Dubhe should be somewhere around Pisces, and maybe he is The Old Man in the Babylonian zodiac:
This figure is 180° away from The Mad Dog and likewise straddling the straight line between east and west. Old Man (Perseus) The Old Man rises in the final month of the year and is appropriately associated with Enmesharra - an ancestral god who resides in the underworld in the form of a ghost. (www.solaria-publications.com) The ghost (manu rere) of the Old Man - presumably a personification of the old year - is depicted as residing in the Milky Way, which not much later will cross the path of Sun. There he will be able to reincarnate himself. The Old Man is standing just above the Pleiades (Star Cluster), and they are probably 'his children': ... Now the deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed stars out of the constellation of the Pleiades; and in order to stop this torrent of rain, God had afterwards to bung up the two holes with a couple of stars borrowed from the constellation of the Bear. That is why the Bear runs after the Pleiades to this day; she wants her children back, but she will never get them till after the Last Day ... The Milky Way is a 'river' and the souls migrate up and down using this 'watery' path. Only at the poles is it possibly to enter or leave the galaxy. I here rely of Hamlet's Mill: "All 'change stations' are found invariably in two regions: one in the South between Scorpius and Sagittarius, the other in the North between Gemini and Taurus; and this is valid through time and space, from Babylon to Nicaragua. Why was it ever done in the first place? Because of the Galaxy, which has its crossroads with the ecliptic between Sagittarius and Scorpius in the South, and between Gemini and Taurus in the North." "Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect'. Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ... Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ..." The Crook constellation is even closer to the ecliptic path which is a fact which we possibly can use when trying to understand the glyph type toki: Crook (Auriga) The Crook depicts a shepherd tending a goat-kid. It naturally symbolizes the spring-time when the majority of calves, lambs and kids are born in the cattle-folds. The shepherd also symbolizes the king, who figuratively guides his people on the paths of safety and security. The Crook therefore appropriately rises in the first month of the year when the king was enthroned and empowered to rule for another year.
And Gemini are standing guard at the gate to the realm of the spirits: Great Twins (Gemini) The Great Twins are closely related to Nergal, the king of the dead in Mesopotamia tradition. The Twins stand guard, weapons at the ready, at the entrance to the underworld - their divine role being to prevent the living from descending to the realm of the dead, and perhaps more importantly to prevent the dead from rising up to overwhelm the realm of the living. Thus we can begin to understand why there were guards at Ana-tipu:
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