Once again. The synodic cycle of Jupiter is 399 days long and with time running like water his full measure will appear not at glyph number 399 but when 398 days have passed after the end of day zero:
In the night sky and close to the Full Moon was the 13th Arab station Al Ghafr (the Cover):
In the times of Al Sharatain this was day 268, i.e. 'September 25. Metoro said the sound of drums (rutua te pahu) was heard as a confirmation of how the sky was moving (rutua te maeva). I have assumed side b of the tablet should be read nakshatra wise, but this is only a conjecture. The same pattern of counting to day sign number 398 can be observed also when reading the G text, however not counted from the beginning of side a:
Although the planets are moving against the still stars in the background there could have been a model which located the planets at specific places. If the final of a cycle of Jupiter was seen close to the Full Moon in the night of RA day 32 (April 22, 478 = 80 + 398) it meant this cycle would have been 1 + 32 + 366 = 399 days long. In G the corresponding glyph was 32 days after Rogo in Gb6-26 (408):
Perhaps the change from eating (kai) in Gb7-27 to sky (ragi) in Gb7-29 illustrates how here in the times of Al Sharatain 'day' changed to 'night'; how the growth of summer turned to the winter season's stand still. 'September 22 was autumn equinox. I think there may have been a common theme from far back in time. In ancient Egypt for instance, they told at the end of the myth of Osiris how he was dismembered: ... Sorrowing, then, the two women placed Osiris's coffer on a boat, and when the goddess Isis was alone with it at sea, she opened the chest and, laying her face on the face of her brother, kissed him and wept. The myth goes on to tell of the blessed boat's arrival in the marshes of the Delta, and of how Set, one night hunting the boar by the light of the full moon, discovered the sarcophagus and tore the body into fourteen pieces, which he scattered abroad; so that, once again, the goddess had a difficult task before her. She was assisted, this time, however, by her little son Horus, who had the head of a hawk, by the son of her sister Nephtys, little Anubis, who had the head of a jackal, and by Nephtys herself, the sister-bride of their wicked brother Set. Anubis, the elder of the two boys, had been conceived one very dark night, we are told, when Osiris mistook Nephtys for Isis; so that by some it is argued that the malice of Set must have been inspired not by the public virtue and good name of the noble culture hero, but by this domestic inadventure. The younger, but true son, Horus, on the other hand, had been more fortunately conceived - according to some, when Isis lay upon her dead brother in the boat, or, according to others, as she fluttered about the palace pillar in the form of a bird. The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish. They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the rule of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin. The hearts of the souls of the dead were put in a balance (libra) in front of Osiris:
The 'claws' of Libra may have defined which of the 'hearts' of the dead souls were allowed to return to life at γ Tauri (Hyadum I):
The 5th Chinese station Heart could be seen close to the Full Moon 32 nights after 'March 26:
From day 366 we can add 32 nights in order to reach 398 and then another 32 nights in order to reach 430:
For counting to 366, 398, respectively 430, it would have been necessary to begin 130 days before 'January 1. 366 - 130 = 236 ('August 24). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
