The picture is clear. A new 'year' was born in July and in this month the Arrow changed to a Serpent, the very straight to its opposite. "Latin authors of classical times and since knew it [the Sagitta constellation] as Canna, Calamus, and Harundo, all signifying the Reed from which the arrow-shafts were formed ..." (Allen) The very straight shaft of the Reed is hollow (like a staff of bamboo, kohe), which could motivate a parallel with a very straight penis ready to transfer the essence of life to the next generation. ... Several Asian cultures, including that of the Andaman Islands, believe that humanity emerged from a bamboo stem. In the Philippine creation myth, legend tells that the first man and the first woman were split open from a bamboo stem that emerged on an island created after the battle of the elemental forces (Sky and Ocean). In Malaysian legends a similar story includes a man who dreams of a beautiful woman while sleeping under a bamboo plant; he wakes up and breaks the bamboo stem, discovering the woman inside. The Japanese folktale 'Tale of the Bamboo Cutter' (Taketori Monogatari) tells of a princess from the Moon emerging from a shining bamboo section. Hawaiian bamboo ('ohe) is a kinolau or body form of the Polynesian creator god Kane. An ancient Vietnamese legend tells of a poor, young farmer who fell in love with his landlord's beautiful daughter. The farmer asked the landlord for his daughter's hand in marriage, but the proud landlord would not allow her to be bound in marriage to a poor farmer. The landlord decided to foil the marriage with an impossible deal; the farmer must bring him a 'bamboo tree of one-hundred sections'. The benevolent god Bụt appeared to the farmer and told him that such a tree could be made from one-hundred sections from several different trees. Bụt gave the him four magic words to attach the many sections of bamboo: 'Khắc nhập, khắc xuất', which means 'put in immediately, take out immediately'. The triumphant farmer returned to the landlord and demanded his daughter. The story ends with the happy marriage of the farmer and the landlord's daughter ... Then - after a very short while - it would become slack like a serpent.
... The canna-reed, which grows from a thick root like a tree, was an ancient symbol of royalty in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Pharaohs used reed scepters (hence Egypt is satiriziced by the prophet Isaiah as a 'bruised reed') and a royal reed was put into Jesus's hand when we was attired in Scarlet. It is the tree from which arrows were cut, and therefore appropriate to a Pharaoh as a living Sun-god who shot off his arrows in every direction as a symbol of sovereignity ... Reeds are growing where land and sea are joining, where land is rising up:
... Quetzalcoatl was not dead. In one of his statues he was shown reclining, covered with wrappings, signifying that he was absent or 'as one who lays him down to sleep, and that when he should wake from that dream of absence, would rise to rule again the land'. He had built mansions underground to the Lord of Mictlan, the lord of the dead, but did not occupy these himself, dwelling, rather, in that land of gold where the sun abides at night. This too, however, is underground. Certain caverns lead to it, one of which, called Cincalco, 'To the Abode of Abundance', is south of Chapultepec; and through its gloomy corridors men can reach that happy land, the habitation of the sun, which is still ruled by Quetzalcoatl. Moreover, that land is the land from which he came in the beginning ... All this, which in so many ways parallels the normal imagery of the Old World culture-hero myths, telling of the one who is gone, dwells underground in a happy, timeless land, as lord of the realm of the happy dead, like Osiris, but will rise again, we can read without surprise. But what is surprising indeed was the manner of Quetzalcoatl's actual return. The priests and astrologers did not know in what cycle he was to reappear; however, the name of the year within the cycle had been predicted, of old, by Quetzalcoatl himself. Its sign was 'One Reed' (Ce Acatl), which, in the Mexican calendar, is a year that occurs only once in every cycle of fifty-two. But the year when Cortes arrived, with his company of fair-faced companions and his standard, the cross, was precisely the year 'One Reed'. The myth of the dead and resurrected god had circumnavigated the globe ...
On the opposite side of the year - compared to July 29 (210) when Beehive (ε Cancri) rose with the Sun - the Dolphin was close to the Full Moon.
January 29 is 314 days after the March 21 equinox. The connection between January 29 and July 29 is therefore evident. Half a cycle beyond July 29 and the heliacal rising of the first of the Āshleshā stars (δ Hydrae) there should be some Sign of the π number. This means I ought to keep my distance 184 days from the heliacal rising of a star to its nakshatra star - July 29 (210) + 184 = 394 (January 29). 210 = 7 months with 30 days in each. Ibn 'Arab may have used RA day 210 (October 17) as the position of his '0° Libra', because 235.7 (Zuben Elakrab / Gemma) - 210.0 = 25.7 = 25°42'51"* 365.25 / 360.
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