The top of the mast of Argo Navis was at Alphard:
| EQUINOX |
●MARCH 22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 (85) |
47 |
| APRIL 1 |
2 (92) |
3 |
4 (*14) |
5 |
6 (96) |
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 |
| Ga1-11 |
Ga1-12 |
Ga1-13 |
Ga1-14 |
Ga1-15 |
Ga1-16 |
| HAEDUS II (75.9) |
5h (76.1) |
μ AURIGAE, μ LEPORIS (77.6) |
ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (78.1), Flaming Star (78.2), Capella (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)
Thuban
|
λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)
Arcturus
|
σ Aurigae (80.4), Bellatrix, Saif al Jabbar (80.7), ELNATH (80.9) |
| ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7) |
| June 4 |
5 |
6 (157 = 314 / 2) |
7 |
8 |
9 (2 * 80) |
| 'May 8 (128) |
9 |
10 (*50) |
11 |
12 (2 * 66) |
13 |
| "April 24 (*34) |
25 |
26 (116 = 4 * 29) |
27 |
28 (2 * 59) |
29 |
| ●MAY 13 |
14 |
15 (*55) |
16 (136) |
10 |
| MAY 24 (144) |
25 (*65) |
26 |
27 |
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 |
 |
 |
| Ga3-5 (64) |
Ga3-6 |
Ga3-7 |
Ga3-8 |
| Pushya-8 |
Āshleshā-9 / Willow-24 |
Al Nathrah-6 |
Extended Net-26a / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12 |
| υ Cancri (128.1), θ CANCRI (128.2), η Cancri (128.5) |
π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ HYDRAE (129.6), AL MINHAR AL SHUJĀ, Museida (129.9) |
BEEHIVE and M44 (130.4), Xestus (130.5), Ascellus Borealis (130.9) |
η Hydrae (131.0), ASCELLUS AUSTRALIS (131.4), Koo She (131.6), ε HYDRAE (131.9) |
| July 27 (208) |
28 |
29 |
30 |
| 'June 30 |
'July 1 (182) |
2 |
3 (*104) |
| "June 16 |
"June 17 (168) |
18 |
19 (*90) |
| ●MAY 27 |
28 (*68) |
29 |
30 (150) |
31 |
●JUNE 1 |
| JUNE 7 (*78) |
8 |
9 |
10 (161) |
11 |
12 |
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 |
 |
 |
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|
| Ga3-19 |
Ga3-20 |
Ga3-21 (80) |
Ga3-22 |
Ga3-23 |
Ga3-24 |
| The Knot (Ukdah) |
Rishu A.-13 |
Vathorz Prior (147.9) |
| Star-25
ANA-HEU-HEU-PO |
Al Tarf-7 |
A Hydrae (144.1) Vega
|
UKDAH (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), Subra (145.8) |
ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS (146.6) |
| ALPHARD (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7) |
ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5) |
| August 10 |
11 |
12 |
13 (*145) |
14 |
15 (227) |
| 'July 14 |
15 |
16 |
17 (*118) |
18 |
19 (200) |
| "June 30 |
"July 1 |
2 |
3 (*104) |
4 |
5 (186) |
| NAKSHATRA DATES: |
| ●NOV 26 |
27 |
28 |
29 (333) |
30 (*254) |
●DECEMBER 1 |
| DEC 7 |
8 |
9 |
10 (*264) |
11 (345) |
12 |
| BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) |
θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7) |
| Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 / Emptiness-11 |
no star listed (326) |
Castra (327.2), Bunda (327.5) Sirius
|
Nashira (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3), Azelfafage, κ Capricorni (328.7) |
Enif, Erakis (329.2), 46 Capricorni, Jih (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), Deneb Algiedi (329.8) |
| Tsin (325.2), Alphirk (325.7), SADALSUD, ξ Gruis (325.9) |
| February 9 (40) |
10 |
11 |
12 (408) |
13 |
14 |
| 'January 13 (378) |
14 |
15 (*300) |
16 |
17 |
18 (383) |
| "December 30 (364) |
31 |
"January 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
The stretch from high up at culminating Vega down to culminating Sirius, half a year later, could be imagined as the main vertical component in the the construction of the World Tree:
... Fanciful, assuredly, but neither the Milky Way nor the terrestrial Ganges offered any basis for the imagery of a river flowing to the four quarters of the earth 'for the purification of the three worlds'. One cannot get away from the 'implex' and it is now necessary to consider the tale of a new skeleton map, alias skambha: the equinoctial colure had shifted to a position where it ran through stars of Auriga and through Rigel. Skambha, as we have said, was the World Tree consisting mostly of celestial coordinates, a kind of wildly imaginative armillary sphere. It all had to shift when one coordinate shifted ...
At the time when Rigel was at 0h the corresponding star at the Pole should have been Vega with the exceptional Sirius (moving hand-in-hand with the Sun) like a 'heart' at the bottom of the line. Such an important way to measure was evidently never forgotten. The idea was reused time and again although the precession forced changes in which star should be at 0h:
| 0h |
Culminating Vega |
182 |
Nakshatra dates |
Culminating Sirius |
| Rigel |
(*66) |
(*249) |
(*327 = *249 + 78) |
| Haedus II |
●MAY 29 (*69) |
●NOVEMBER 28 (*252) |
●FEBRUARY 11 |
| Hyadum II |
JUNE 9 (*80) |
DECEMBER 9 (*263) |
FEBRUARY 11 |
| Bharani |
"July 2 (*103) |
"January 2 (*286) |
"February 11 |
| Sheratan |
'July 16 (*117) |
'January 15 (*300) |
'February 11 |
| Sirrah |
August 12 (*144) |
February 11 (*327) |
Februray 11 (407) |
I have assumed the distance from heliacal Sirius as morning star to culminating Sirius at midnight was constant through the ages and equal to 407 (February 11) - 181 (June 30) = 226 days.
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