6. I will continue to use both heliacal and nakshatra dates for a while to see where it leads us. From a preliminary description with Ka1-1 located 67 days after 'March 21 my second attempt still has Ka1-3 in the center but now with Aldebaran pushed 2 steps ahead:
My old rule to add 66 to the glyph numbers has now been changed to add 64. Perhaps a further step is necessary, viz. to get rid of Aldebaran altogether and to put Theemin at Ka1-4. But then there would be 2 leap days. In G there are 4 glyphs from Antares which seem to belong together. And Syrma 10 is day 193 in the manzil calendar (equal to the day number for 'July 13, the date of Castor's ghost):
From Theemin (υ² Eridani) to ζ Herculis there are 252.1 - 68.5 = 183.6 days. Perhaps Theemin should be at Ka1-4 together with Aldebaran, because 68.5 is halfway from 68 to 69 and because 'May 29 should be a starless day:
Instead of adding 80 to the RA day number in order to reach the Gregorian day we can add 263 to the RA date in order to find the nakshatra date, e.g. 74 + 263 = 337. 263 = 80 + 183. By a curious roundabout route we have now arrived at Hassaleh at the same glyph place in K as in G:
Should we say the glyph numbers are to be counted not from Gb8-30 but from Ga1-1, then the adding rule for RA days would be the same as in K, viz. to add 64. For instance is 10 + 64 = 74 in both texts. Hassaleh (ι Aurigae, the first star on Chaucer's list) was probably rising heliacally in 'June 3, in Gregorian day number 154 (= 74 + 80). And 154 = 11 * 14 could mean one more 'fortnight'. In G the date 'December 3 (6 months later) apparently has a glyph which illustrates the 'fruit' (the beginning of the new one) hanging in front:
We cannot be certain the dates in G correspond to heliacal risings, they could refer to nakshatra dates. Or maybe side b of the tablet could refer to nakshatra dates. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
