The center of the Mamari text is where side a changes to side b. A position in the center is important because it should be the location of the Ruler. Therefore we must here advance carefully, step by step. Next such could be to look at the manzil dates:
464 - 327 = 137 because the leap day February 29 has raised the normal difference between the Gregorian day numbers and the manzil day numbers from 136 to 137. And also 384 incorporates the leap day, with 384 - 327 = 57 (= 3 * 19) instead of 56 (= 8 weeks). The raa-raa glyph is at the beginning of a new manzil and Almuqaddam 1 is day 325 - as if the 12 days between March 24 (3-24) and April 6 counted for nothing:
I have not yet got hold of what star Almuqaddam is, but I guess it is in the Urn part of Aquarius. I have found an internet site (http://www.yeatsvision.com/Mansions. html#IbnA) with a manzil list from around 1200 A.D. and its station 26 is Al Fargh Al Mukdim ('The First Spout'), a name similar to Al Muqaddam, which then could mean simply 'The First' (Spout):
"spout ... pipe for discharging water, etc. XIV; discharge of water, waterspout XVI. corr. to Flem. spuyte, Du. spuit, but prob. immed. f. spout vb. (XIV) discharge liquid - MDu. spouten (Du. spuiten), f. imit. base *spūt-, repr. also in ON. spýta spit." (The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology.) ... What? Well! What's the fruit of this tree? Shouldn't this tree bear something sweet? They shouldn't die, they shouldn't be wasted. Should I pick one? said the maiden. And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone. Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden. And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle ... What Greek letter in Aquarius could suit Almuqaddam? 21°25'40" Aquarius is evidently not counted from 0h. Instead a new counting could have begun from 'the first point' of Aquarius. In my list this is ε (Albali). Such a method of defining star positions explains what I earlier have found hard to accept, viz. that 'the first point in Aries' was an expression based on where 0h once was defined. 3 weeks later - given that 21º can be translated as 21 days - means adding 314.8 (Albali) + 21.4 = RA day 336. Almuqaddam could be Ancha (θ) at 337.4:
Ancha (θ) is at the waist of Aquarius and Sadachbia (γ) is on his right arm:
The order between the stars Ancha and Sadachbia is reversed in the manzil calendar, where the manzil Saad Al Akhbia comes before the manzil Almuqaddam.
Saad Al Akhbia 13 (324) + 80 = 404 in a way could correspond to October 31 (304) = 80 + 224 (August 12).
Possibly the explanation is that the flow from the old Urn points downwards. Ancha at the midline of the Aquarius figure is in the southern hemisphere (07° 47′ S) and April 6 (Almuqaddam 1) is the first day beyond day 460 in the leap year. The form of the letter θ suggests a midline ('waist'), although the origin of θ is the Phoenician tēth which means 'wheel'. This in turn could have originated from a glyph named 'good' which in Egypt was nfr
"... is Ancha, the Hip, although on most modern atlases the star lies in the belt on the front of the figure. The word is from the Latin of the Middle Ages, and still appears in the French haunche, our haunch. Reeves says that in China ita was Lei, a Tear." (Allen) I guess the star Ankaa (α Phoenicis) could have a similar origin as Ancha. The Arabic word Ankaa means Phoenix, and who is this fire bird who raises anew from its own ashes if not an incarnation of Sun? ... This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator. The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator. Rather, he will leave his daughters and sons. So it is that I have done likewise through you. Now go up there on the face of the earth; you will not die. Keep the word. So be it, said the head of One and Seven Hunaphu - they were of one mind when they did it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
