7. Counting on by adding 64 to the ordinal numbers for the visible glyphs on the K tablet we will reach RA day 212 at the end of 'July (because 68 + 64 + 80 = 212), where there is a honu with a little dot:
Gemini is here in the past and instead it could be a Cancer star who rules, at least if we follow our own zodiac:
But we must be cautious. South of the equator Hydra may have been more important. The 'nose' (σ) of Hydrae rose heliacally in 'July 29, in the same day as δ Hydrae:
And the Babylonians had a pair of paths to choose from:
Possibly it means we should expect the K text to treat both the stars of Cancer and those in Hydra. This difficulty could be avoided at Gemini, because that is where the pair of paths are crossing: ... In Plato's Timaeus, it is explained that the two bands that form the soul of the world cross each other like the letter Χ ... We do not have to worry about where in the year Cancer and Hydra were in Babylonian times, because the solar zodiac (the ecliptic) will be crossing the Milky Way at the same place in the sky forever. However, for the crossing to function properly it was necessary to be at one of the corners of 'Earth': ... 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' ... ... 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 ... In rongorongo times there was no problem for the souls of the dead to 'change trains', it could be done in 'June when the Twins stood on the bank of the Milky Way. The dead had a chance to return to the living: ... 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 ... The crossroad (X) stood at the Gemini station of change in rongorongo times, where some souls of the dead could return to the living, be born again, possibly at τ Gemini where Sun rose in 'July 11, in other words 8 weeks counted from Sheratan 1 and in Gregorian day 192:
... Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ ... is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300 ... In ancient times, Tau was used as a symbol for life and/or resurrection, whereas the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, theta [θ], was considered the symbol of death ... |
