The 4 glyphs of midsummer are pairs:
Although the daytime nakshatra Ardra continues uninterrupted, the signs of the night indicate a division. Mula is ending and the pair of Purva nakshatras are beginning. Mula 23 was nakshatra day 250 which is 26 less than the number of the corresponding RA-day. Although the last star of the Scorpion constellation, Apollyon (ι), was in RA-day 269 (December 15, 349), the Scorpion nakshatra could have continued for another week and ended with December 22 (= 12 * 22 = 264 or = 10 * 22 = 220):
The form of an elephant tusk resembles that of a Moon crescent, but possibly also the pair of 'tusks' of an archer's bow:
The Bow of the Archer is like the relaxed Bow across the left thigh of the tumbling Hercules, which probably is a Sign indicating an antagonism between the autumn Archer and the spring Hercules:
Hercules had Corona Borealis while Sagittarius had Corona Australis. To find the last star of Columbae (δ) we have to move 1 further day ahead. |