LYRA: |
22 |
Abhijit |
α, ε,
and ζ Lyrae |
- |
281 =
277
+ 4 |
victorious |
Vega |
Dec 27
(361) |
This
is the only Hindu lunar station which has no added comment
(-). Maybe no such was necessary. When Vega was close to the Sun
it could have meant half a cycle (10 * 27 = 270 = 540 / 2)
had been completed and that a new such would here be successfully
initiated - with the dark forces overcome (therefore
'victorius', abhijit). As always only pure speculations of mine, of
course.
Half a
year later the Sun would reach June 27 (178) at the spot
in the sky roof opposite to Vega. *281 - 183 = *98. December 27
could be counted as 10 (decem) * 27 = 270 = 9 * 30 and
361 (December 27) minus 183 was 178 (June 27, 6-27). 62 * 7 =
434, could allude to RA day 434 - 80 = *354 = 12 * 29½.
Counting from January 1 in the previous year June 27 became RA day 178 - 80 +
366 = *464.
The
illustration of Lyra above is from Hevelius, who depicted the
constellations with the same perspective as the rongorongo
writers, i.e. with time running from left to right (with higher
RA positions towards the right) = the perspective from a point
outside the globe of stars. We can therefore understand
the eagle is looking backwards in time, a sign which
may have meant he had no future. Lyra was in a way an end station.
In a mirror image
the normally forward looking persons will be reversed, with
right becoming left and vice versa. This could explain why
κ Lyrae comes at right in this star
map - where right ascension increases to the left.