1. Once the name for the constellation Aries was Hamal, but now it is the name of the star α Arietis. It is rising immediately after Alamak (and only a day after Alrisha):
If we count with a 360-day cycle, then its glyph number will be exactly 439. If its right ascension had been 02h 03m, then it would have risen in day number 31.4 (= 10 times π).
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