Elnath (β Tauri) and Heavenly Gate (ζ) could be the stars which 'opened up' after spring equinox (producing the sign < when reading right ascension from left to right as in the images of Hevelius), they could be the pair of 'eyes' (mata) depicted as emerging from the top right corner of the Egyptian Net:  The other sign, oppositely oriented, 'opened up' (moving withershins) the 'Flooded Earth':  Having realized this, we can then see how the pair of Pisces may have influenced the way the creator of the Corinthian vase depicted the arms of Andromeda, with her in the middle like the Babylonian asterism 1-iku:  The meaning should then be that she belongs in the 'watery part' of the solar cycle. ... Hence the blameless Andromeda came to be chained to a rock to atone for the sins of her mother, who watched from the shore with bitter remorse. The site of this event is said to have been on the Mediterranean coast at Joppa (Jaffa), the modern Tel-Aviv. As Andromeda stood on the wave-lashed cliffs, pale with terror and weeping pitifully at her impending fate, the hero Perseus happened by, fresh from his exploit of beheading Medusa the Gorgon. His heart was captivated by the sight of the frail beauty in distress below. Tel-Aviv is on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and when Ira with his companions were at Pu Pakakina they were on the western shore of Easter Island. On one side was Land and on the opposite side was the Sea. In between was the Shore line. The time would have been spring equinox in both cases. |