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Abhijit-22 at Lyra was ruled not only by the bright Vega (the nakshatra star close to the northern pole) but also by the star Double Double (ε close to the throat of the eagle), a name which sounds very much like an allusion to the Doublegood Pair (Gemini). ... In Hindu legend there was a mother goddess called Aditi, who had seven offspring. She is called 'Mother of the Gods'. Aditi, whose name means 'free, unbounded, infinity' was assigned in the ancient lists of constellations as the regent of the asterism Punarvasu. Punarvasu is dual in form and means 'The Doublegood Pair'. The singular form of this noun is used to refer to the star Pollux. It is not difficult to surmise that the other member of the Doublegood Pair was Castor. Then the constellation Punarvasu is quite equivalent to our Gemini, the Twins ... But the heliacal head of Castor arrived not at the opposite side of Vega in June 27 (178 = 6 * 29½ + 1) but 15 days later, in July 12 (193).
The 'broken elbow' sign at left in Ga2-7 can be contrasted with the same type of sign in Cb2-5, where it is in front and thus maybe referring to how the old year is 'broken', implicitly with a new year lifted up (visualized as a great crescent in front):
Atlas culminated at midnight in December 31 and with him rising heliacally at the beginning of the calendar Atlas could serve as the opposite pole compared to Vega at the end of the calendar. December 31 (Atlas culminating at midnight) - December 27 (heliacal Vega) = 4 = 2 * 2 ('double double'). December 27 (361) - 136 (May 16) = 225 (= 15 * 15). However, with Cb2-6 probably corresponding to the day of heliacal Atlas, Ga2-6 could refer to the opposite side of the calendar, viz. to nakshatra Double-Double. December 29 (363) - 136 (May 16) = 227 = π.
Number was essential for describing cosmos. I have just noticed how the day for the birth of Jesus Christ was said to have been fixed in the year A.D. 273: ... That the Sun-gods Dionysus, Apollo and Mithras were all also reputedly born at the Winter solstice is well known, and the Christian Church first fixed the Nativity feast of Jesus Christ at the same season, in the year A.D. 273. St. Chrysostom, a century later, said that the intention was that 'while the heathen were busied with their profane rites the Christians might perform their holy ones without disturbance', but justified the date as suitable for one who was 'the Sun of Righteousness' ... Earlier I have suggested that the year A.D. 325 - for the Council of Nicea - was inspired by the Julian date for spring equinox (March 25 = 3-25): ... When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC he set March 25 as the spring equinox. Since a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March. This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325. (Incidentally, the date of Easter itself is fixed by an approximation of lunar cycles used in the Hebraic calendar, but according to the historian Bede the English name 'Easter' comes from a pagan celebration by the Germanic tribes of the vernal - spring - equinox.) Well now, number 273 (which before my studies of rongorongo was completely meaningless for me) is certainly alluding to day 273 counted from January 1, i.e. September 30, the last day of summer. I am equally convinced of this as of 227 standing for π. 314 - 227 = 3 * 29 and 325 - 273 = 4 * 13. (3 + 4) * (13 + 29) = 294 = 10 * 29½ - day zero. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
