531 = 1½ * 354 and by looking at the dates for the night sky we can see Gregorian day 350 (December 16) and the manzil date Akleel 5 (214):
Apollyon is ι Scorpii and the last star in the Mula nakshatra (14 stations later than Mrigashīrsha):
We can use the rule of adding 184 in order to find some of the possible meanings of the glyphs. I guess the nameless η Scorpii has no name because it is hidden in the smoke from the Altar (Ara). In rongorongo times this nameless star rose with the Sun in day 260 counted from March 21:
I should add that Basanismus (G Scorpio) is in my star list because of the following: ... Lesath, or Lesuth, is from Al Las'ah, the Sting, which, with λ, it [υ] marks; yet Smyth, who treats of these two stars at considerable length, says that the word is formed by Scaliger's conjecture from Alascha, which is a corruption of al-shaúlah. Lesath, therefore is not a term used by the Arabs, who designate all these bumps, which form the tail, Al-fiķrah, vertebrated twirls; they are formed by ε, μ, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, and υ, and it is supposed that the sting, punctura scorpionis, was formerly carried to the following star, γ, marked nebulous by Ptolemy. But this γ is surely wrong; that letter really applying to a star in the right claw very far to the west of the sting, - as far as the make-up of the creature will allow. Still Burritt located it as Smyth did. Al Bīrūnī wrote that λ and υ were in the Harazā, the Joints of the Vertebrae. Riccioli mentioned υ as Lesath vel potius Lessaa Elaakrab Morsum Scorp, vel Denneb Elaakrab; and Bayer, Leschat recté Lesath, Moschlek, Alascha, which we have seen for λ; but the proximity of these stars renders this duplication not unnatural ... What a mess! I cannot find any γ Scorpii. Neither in Wikipedia, nor in my astronomy book, nor in Cartes du Ciel. But a reasonable candidate is G (as in gamma) Scorpii, the very last part of the tail (thus a 'following' star). We must add G to our list ... Lesath (υ Scorpii) is not a faint star (2.7), yet not mentioned in the Hindu list. Possibly they wanted 8 stars in Mula instead of 9. But maybe there were time distances to consider, e.g. less than a day from Lesath to Shaula (λ). And the name 'Alascha' for the pair Shaula (λ) and Lesath (υ) is, I think, a hint that we should compare this pair of stars with the single star Alrisha:
If Alrisha (α Piscium) represented the time when Sun (the 'Fire') returned, then Alascha could have represented the time when he was (temporarily) defeated by the dark forces (and reduced to Ashes). Wikipedia: "Upsilon Scorpii (υ Sco, υ Scorpii) is a star located in the 'stinger' of the southern zodiac constellation of Scorpius, the scorpion. It has the traditional name Lesath (alternative spellings Leschath, Lesuth), from Arabic al laţkha= 'pass (or bite) of a poisonous animal'; but this is a miscorrection by Scaliger (a European astronomer who knew Arabic) for earlier 'Alascha', which came from Arabic al laţkha = 'the foggy patch', referring to the nearby open cluster M7. On the night sky it lies near the 1.6 magnitude star Lambda Scorpii, so the two form an optical pair that is sometimes called the 'Cat's Eyes'." This pair of Cat's Eyes could be those hanging at the left (in the past) where the single right Eye of the Bull rose with the Sun (in May 26):
"Messier 7 or M7, also designated NGC 6475 and sometimes known as the Ptolemy Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Scorpius. The cluster is easily detectable with the naked eye, close to the 'stinger' of Scorpius (also called Scorpion). With a declination of -34.8°, it is the southernmost Messier object. M7 has been known since antiquity; it was first recorded by the 1st-century Greek-Roman astronomer Ptolemy, who described it as a nebula in 130 AD." (Wikipedia) Comparing the right ascension for Antares (16h 29m 24.47s) with that for M7 (17h 53m 51.2s) we can see where M7 should be in the C text:
84.5 / 1440 * 365¼ = 21.4 days. In rongorongo times Antares rose heliacally in RA day 249.1 and M7 would have risen in RA day 249.1 + 21.4 = 270.5, i.e. according to my convention for handling 0.5 the nebula should be in Gregorian day 80 + 270 = 350 (December 16, where we can count 12 * 16 = 192). Probably no coincidence:
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