The burial ground for the Pharaohs corresponded to the Belt of Orion. But in ancient Egypt they had everything 'upside down', with up in the south etc. The stars indicated the beginning of the Rigel year was 5 days earlier and possibly, one might think, the burial ground could therefore have represented the nakshatra view:
However, June 10 should be at the beginning of the month when Hercules had to die: ... The seventh tree is the oak, the tree of Zeus, Juppiter, Hercules, The Dagda (the chief of the elder Irish gods), Thor, and all the other Thundergods, Jehovah in so far as he was 'El', and Allah. The royalty of the oak-tree needs no enlarging upon: most people are familiar with the argument of Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough, which concerns the human sacrifice of the oak-king of Nemi on Midsummer Day. The fuel of the midsummer fires is always oak, the fire of Vesta at Rome was fed with oak, and the need-fire is always kindled in an oak-log. When Gwion writes in the Câd Goddeu, 'Stout Guardian of the door, His name in every tongue', he is saying that doors are customarily made of oak as the strongest and toughest wood and that 'Duir', the Beth-Luis-Nion name for 'Oak', means 'door' in many European languages including Old Goidelic dorus, Latin foris, Greek thura, and German tür, all derived from the Sanskrit Dwr, and that Daleth, the Hebrew letter D, means 'Door' - the 'l' being originally an 'r'. Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ... Such a great death had to be compensated for by lighting a new fire, which explains the Chinese Turtle followed by 3 stars (stones).
"Thuban and Al Tinnin are from the Arabic title for the whole of Draco, and Azhdeha from the Persian. It is also Adib, Addih, Eddib, Adid, Adive, and El Dsib, all from Al Dhi'bah, the Hyenas, that also appears for the stars ζ, η, and ι; as well as for others in Boötes and Ursa Major. Al Tizini called it Al Dhīh, the Male Hyena." (Allen)
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