The porpoise is a kind of sea pig, a mammal who has returned to the sea, changed her legs back to fins. "kelson, keelson ... line of timber inside a ship parallel to the keel. XVII. ME. kelswayn, kelsweyn, kelsyng, mod. kelsine, perh. points to an original *kelswin, the nearest parallel to which, and the prob. source, is LG. kielswin (whence also G. kielschwein, Da. kølsvin, Sw. kölsvin), f. kiel KEEL + (prob.) swin SWINE, used like cat, dog, horse, for a timber ..." (The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology.)
Metoro never used the word puaka when reading for Bishop Jaussen. Sun should not go down to visit the fishes because fire and water are incompatible. Neither should Sun disappear up among the mists of the Milky Way, because immortal gods should not go that way, not reincarnate. Somehow Sun had to continue straight ahead although the ecliptic path was leading below the 'surface of the Sea', declination 0º. Riding on a porpoise could be an alternative - especially if the 'porpoise' was a structure of timber (a 'keel-swine') inside a ship. The stars in the Dolphin are concentrated in a small time region, and 4 of them (α, β, δ, and γ) are forming a little quadrangle. This quartet of stars are in my list, but not yet the other 6 with Greek letters:
Let's take an overview. The first of them to rise were Rotanev (β) and Svalocin (α):
The pair of glyphs preceding number 314 (π) are exactly alike, which is an argument for them to represent Rotanev and Svalocin. "The strange names Sualocin and Rotanev first appeared for these stars in the Palermo Catalogue of 1814, and long were a mystery to all, and seemingly a great puzzle for Smyth, which he perhaps never solved, although he was very intimate with the staff of the Palermo Observatory. Webb, however, discovered their origin by reversing the component letters and so reading Nicolaus Venator [Hunter], the Latinized form of Niccolo Cacciatore, the name of the assistant and successor of Piazzi. But Miss Rolleston, in her singular book Mazzaroth, considered in some quarters as of authority, wrote that they are derived, α from the Arabic Scalooin, swift (as the flow of water); and β from the Syriac and Chaldee Rotaneb, or Rotaneu, swiftly running (as water in the trough). For no part of this scholarly (!) statement does there seem to be the least foundation. Burritt gave these titles as Scalovin and Rotanen." (Allen) I then discovered I have missed to put in δ and γ Delphini in parallel with the glyphs in the C text. I had used a shortcut by copying from the stars in parallel with the G glyphs, but δ and γ Delphini were later added to my star list, when writing the chapter Star Pillars (in Camp 14 and the K text).
It seems likely that this constellation was important because it covered the region around 314 days from March 21. Moreover, it is a constellation which not has its stars scattered over a vast region and it would therefore tend to be more definite and stable in peoples' minds, more likely to withstand the pressure from the everywhere increasing entrophy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
