Now I must take the opportunity to point out the similarity between vaha kai in Ca12-17 and vaha kai in *Ha7-35:
Although the parallel H, Q and P texts are describing events in a common structural form, the 'qualities' of the glyphs in the three texts are not the same. Concentrating on H, however, we should remember that I have suggested there are 3 glyphs needed to account for a day. For instance: 3 * 126 glyphs = 378 (the Saturn number) glyphs = 126 days. Vaha kai in *Ha7-35 is glyph number 339 + *5 + 35 = *379:
Therefore this vaha kai could represent the first glyph in day 127 counted from the beginning of side a. And possibly 7-35 could imply that the beginning of side a in H is located at day 365 - 126 = 239 (perhaps referring to August 29), because 73 * 5 = 365. At any rate we should try to understand also this vaha kai as illustrating the 'swallowing mouth' waiting for the old year. Piscis Austrinus was close to the Sun in late February - early March and the constellation would therefore have been visible close to the Moon in the nights of late August - early September:
From February 27 to March 2 there are 2 + 2 = 4 days, because February 29 is a leap day. But I have jumped across the leap day when assigning the RA dates. Therefore March 2 corresponds to RA day 343 (February 27) + 3 = 346. The nakshatra RA days = the heliacal RA days - 182. But e.g. August 29 (237) - 80 = 157. I have instead counted 343 (February 27) - 182 = 161. For some reason there seems to be a 4-day difference, but I will not use up my precious time to investigate why. September 1 is day 244 in an ordinary year and 164 + 80 = 244. Assuming the stars are distributed according to the days of the ordinary year, then RA day 164 = RA day 346 (March 2 in a leap year) - 182. Possibly vaha kai in *Ha7-35 is located at the beginning of day 127 counted from August 29 (239), which means day 239 + 127 = 366 (January 1), i.e. apparently 30 + 17 = 47 days earlier than vaha kai in Ca12-17 (February 17). 366 (beginning of new Sun year) + 47 = 413 (end of old Moon year). But if we should assume vaha kai in *Ha7-35 was located at the heliacal rising of Piscis Austrinus, e.g. at the time when Fomalhaut rose with the Sun, then the date will be different, and the beginning of the text on side a would be in RA day 349 - 126 = 223, which corresponds to Gregorian day 80 + 223 = 303 (October 30 in an ordinary year). On the other hand, if we should assume vaha kai in *Ha7-35 was located at the nakshatra date of Fomalhaut, then the date at the beginning of side a would be around September 3 (245) - 126 = 119 (April 29). But we should also consider the possibility that vaha kai instead should be at η:
The distance from η to α is 15 days = ca 1h. 378 = 6 * 63 and 126 = 2 * 63. |