5. The contrary K text must have some reason. Maybe it refers not to the heliacal risings of the stars but to the contrary positions the same stars would have half a year later, when they would be seen against the background of a full Moon face - i.e. the nakshatra method to determine the time of the year. For example:
I have counted the nakshatra day number for Aldebaran as 148.2 + 365¼ / 2 = 148.2 + 182.625 = 330.825. The manzil date in November 27 is Syrma 12 and 2 days later than than the heliacal rising of Antares. For Antares I have counted the nakshatra day number as 329.1 + 365¼ / 2 - 365¼ = 329.1 - 365¼ / 2 = 146.475. In the Antares chapter I presented a table for its major events and we can now include also the nakshatra date (of its RA day):
From the nakshatra date of Antares - close to the heliacal rising of Aldebaran - to the midnight culmination of Antares there are 192 - 146 = 46 days. From the nakshatra date of Aldebaran - close to the heliacal rising of Antares - to the midnight culmination of Aldebaran (in 'January 10) there are 375 - 331 = 44 days. With this way of thinking it is easy to imagine Antares is close to Aldebaran. And the K text could be interpreted to cover 182 days, because there would be a leap from Antares in 'November 25 to Aldebaran in "November 27. However, such a leap day ought to be at Ka1-3, where we recognize the 'empty of ruler' sign. If the heliacal rising of Aldebaran represented the last day of the old year (or half-year), then the leap day should indeed come in Ka1-3. A similar empty henua sign arrives in Ga5-30, the day after Spica and Alcor:
I have here extended the position of Spica and Alcor to cover also the starless day 'October 11, because I think Ga5-30 should be read together with Ga5-29. The first glyph of a new calendar year (or half-year) could be Ka1-4, with a position similar to that of Ga6-1. But we do not know. Another reading of the 'contrary' K text could be to simply say that whereas in G the heliacal dates refer to the seasons north of the equator the K text describes the parallel but opposite seasons south of the equator. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
