The number of days and dates for each manzil ought to be adjusted to what Ibn 'Arab may have used. The following is, though, only an outline for our discussion:
The dates at the time of Ibn 'Arab cannot have been Gregorian, they should rather have been Julian. But to avoid complications I have above used the dates which correspond to the heliacal risings of the manzil stars around 1870 A.D. (in 'rongorongo times').
365¼ / 364 * 13.00 =13.04 and therefore I have worked with 13.0 days also when counting RA days backwards from Sadalsud. In my list the first to rise star in Capricornus is ξ (306.8) and I cannot see any earlier star in the star map copied from Wikipedia. Maybe 0° Capricorni was no star at all but something else:
Possibly the reason was Pollux close to the full Moon, because Pollux - rather remarkably - was the star ruling the more modern manzil Al Muakhar. Pollux ought to come later in the calendar (or else there is a gap in time between Aquarius and Gemini):
"The name Pollux refers specifically to Castor and Pollux, the sons of Leda. The star also bears Arabic name Al-Ras al-Tau'am al-Mu'akhar... literally, 'The Head of the Second Twin.' Castor and Pollux together correspond to the Nakshatra Punarvasu in Hindu astronomy. The star is named Punartham in Malayalam." (Wikipedia) The distance between φ Aquarii - which was ruling Al Fargh al Mukdim and therefore presumably also Al-muqaddam - and Pollux is 352.0 (φ Aquarii) - 116.2 (Pollux) = 235.8 days (close to 8 * 29½ = 236). But counting forward first from 352.0 to 365¼ means the distance will be 235.8 - (365¼ - 352.0) = ca 222 days. And 366 - 222 = 144 (= 12 * 12). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
