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1. The 4th hour contains also the Perseus constellation which is rising earlier than the Pleiades and Taurus:

Its α star is Algenib (also named Mirfak).

*Menkar*	α Ceti	2.54	03º 54' N	03h 00m	45.7	453.7	453
*Algenib*	α Persei	1.79	49º 41' N	03h 21m	51.0	459.0	458¼
*Alcyone*	η Tauri	2.85	23º 57' N	03h 45m	57.1	465.1	464¼

Earlier we have encountered another Algenib, viz. γ Pegasi, which is rising 48 days earlier:


Gb6-26	Gb6-27	Gb6-28 (411)
Caph (409.5), Sirrah (409.5)		Algenib (410.8)

Names are important and there should be a connection in meaning between these 'side' stars:

"Algenib, with the early variations of Algeneb, Elgenab, Genib, Chenib, and Alchemb, is from Al Janb, the Side ..." (Allen)


Gb8-11 (453)	Gb8-12	Gb8-13	Gb8-14	Gb8-15	Gb8-16	Gb8-17 (459)
Menkar (453.7)						Algenib (459.0)

The meaning of 'the side', I guess, is that there is a turning around - for a moment we can see neither the full facial side nor the whole back side but simply the side. The 'side' presumably is a technical expression for when an old cycle is 'going away' and a new cycle is 'born'.

The picture in Gb8-17 evidently illustrates how a little new one is released at the top end, like when Maui was born from the topknot of his mother. It also resembles how the 'head' (Ulu) was a necessary precursor of his son 'the living island' (Mokuola).