The star which rose heliacally in October 22 (Gregorian day 295 and 181 days after the heliacal rising of Mira) was κ Virginis, the 2nd of the Chinese 'star pillars':
Significantly the first Chinese lunar station is Horn and the 2nd is Neck. The Horn should correspond to a tara point we can assume, and the Neck maybe refers to the neck of Cetus or to the neck of some other animal at the opposite end of the sky.
"ι, κ, and υ constituted the 13th sieu, Kang, a Man's Neck, κ being the determining star ..." (Allen) ι Virginis is Syrma, the name of which is the manzil beginning with November 16 (day 184). I suggest most of the important images in the sky are basically repeated half a year later, making it easier to understand where Sun is (by means of the nakshatra method). Mira is at the neck of Cetus and the corresponding star κ Virginis at the other side of the sky is also at a neck. Spring evidently begins with a point (tara) and next comes a neck (or 'head', uru), and this rule probably applies equally well south of the equator as north of the equator. ... And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae) ...
The Horn in Virgo is formed by Spica and Heze: ... Spica and Zeta Virginis formed Jiao, the horn of the Blue Dragon cang long. Jiao, ‘horn’, was also the first of the 28 Chinese lunar mansions. Since the ecliptic passed between the two stars of Jiao the pair were seen as a gateway for the Sun, Moon and planets (there are many such gateways in the Chinese sky) ...
The Chinese Horn could be observed close to the full moon early in April:
Our rule of thumb to add 181 days to the heliacal rising of a star in order to find the corresponding nakshatra star means we can also count in the other direction. Heze, for instance, could be the nakshatra star of a star which was rising 181 days earlier, and 205 -181 = 24. This position in the C text brings us to a place where Metoro was silent, presumably because he knew the venerable Bishop would not listen to sexual matters. I have above changed the nakshatra position of Spica and Alcor 2 days ahead from Ca1-19 because earlier I used another method, which involved arranging the nakshatra position of Spica together with its heliacal position:
This is somewhat confusing. But 181 + 184 = 365. By using 181 in moving from a heliacal star to its opposite nakshatra star we will step ahead a pair of days.
Anyhow, Metoro's tagata huki ought to identify the beginning of the Chinese 'Horn'. And the moe type of glyph presumably means the 'Old One' is transferring his energy (living spirit) to the womb (hand) of Mother Earth. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
