5. Once, a long time ago, spring equinox was close to Castor. In that ancient time ν Cancri would have risen heliacally ca 3 weeks after March 21. In between Castor and ν Cancri was the first star of Cancer, approximately in day 80 + 8 = 88. And then the Gods would be reborn, once again come alive and prove their presence by revitalizing nature: ... 'The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world. All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played with. Two children of men will also be found safe from the great flames of Surt. Their names, Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the morning dew and from this human pair will come a great population which will fill the earth. And strange to say, the sun, before being devoured by Fenrir, will have borne a daughter, no less beautiful and going the same ways as her mother.' This mythical landscape seemed timeless, not perturbed by precession. The images in the night sky resisted change because they had been created interconnected in a great cosmic web defined by number. Naos came 8 days after Castor (equal to the number of dark Venus nights before she is reborn as morning star) and after a further 15 days came ν Cancri:
In K this is day 72 counted from the beginning of the text and 24 days from the elbow pure (in Gregorian day 192). 216 - 192 = 9 * 24 - 8 * 24 = 24. The birth-place in time could have been defined by the beginning of Cancer. We should now distribute also the rest of our newly listed Cancer stars over the K text:
The glyph at π, the last star of Cancer, is not at Ka3-14. Rather the reverse. Cancer is not a portal of exit but a hole of rebirth. Possibly the 2 + 3 + 4 feathers around the hole correspond to the 'rays' in our own sign for birth, the asterisk (*). In G there is a hole in glyph 233 (not 234):
Counting from 'January 1 in the previous year 'August 7 will be day number 365 + 219 = 584 = the number of nights in the synodical cycle of Venus, the planet ruling births. In G glyph 219 is at Vega, rising 14 days earlier than Albireo (β Cygni):
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