next page previous page table of contents home

Neither ψ nor ω can be found in the star map for Cetus:

On the other hand: There are 4 stars φ in Al Nithām, the Necklace, and there is also a pair of ξ stars. 24 (Greek letters in the alphabet) - 2 = 22 and 22 + 3 + 1 = 26. So far I have only 5 Ceti stars in my list and 21 should now be added:

ι

00h19m25.68s

00h19.428m

4.3

Deneb Kaitos

00h43m35.23s

00h43.587m

10.4

φ¹

00h44m11.41s 00h44.190m

10.6

φ²

00h50m07.72s 00h50.129m

12.1

φ³

00h56m01.51s 00h56.025m

13.6

φ4

00h58m43.89s 00h58.732m

14.2

η

01h08m35.26s 01h08.588m

16.7

θ

01h24m01.45s 01h24.024m

20.7

τ

01h44m05.13s 01h44.086m

25.7

χ

01h49m35.19s

01h49.587m

27.1

υ

02h00m00.22s

02h00.004m

29.8

ξ¹

02h13m00.01s

02h13.000m

33.1

ρ

02h25m57.01s

02h25.950m

36.4

ξ²

02h28m09.52s

02h28.159m

36.9

σ

02h32m05.28s

02h32.088m

37.9

ν

02h35m52.49s

02h35.875m

38.9

δ

02h39m28.95s

02h39.483m

39.8

ε

02h39m33.73s

02h39.562m

39.8

π

02h44m07.35s

02h44.123m

41.0

μ

02h44m56.37s

02h44.940m

41.2

λ

02h59m42.90s

02h59.715m

44.9

κ

03h19m21.54s

03h19.359m

49.9

When calculating the right ascension numbers I noticed how they in Cetus were as if by magic exhibiting several of our now well known calendar numbers.

For instance was the first Greek lettered star in Cetus (ι) at Gb3-14 (day 384 at the time of the Hyades Gate):

 
Gb3-11 Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (75) Gb3-15 Gb3-16 (306)
JANUARY 16 17 18 19 (384) 20 21
Al Fargh al Thāni-25 Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7) no star listed (4) Ankaa, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

Alphard

0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis (0.8) ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8)
March 21 (0h) 22 23 24 Equinox (84) 26 (450)
°March 17 18 19 20 °March 21 (0h) 22
'February 22 Terminalia Bissextum (*340) 25 (56) 26 (422) 27
"February 8 9 (40) 10 (*326) 11 12 (408) 13
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JULY 18 19 (200) 20 (*121)   21 22-7 23
Alchita, Ma Wei (183.1), Minkar (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) Pálida (184.6), Megrez (184.9) Hasta-13 / Chariot-28 Chang Sha (186.3) Intrometida (187.4), Acrux (187.5) γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), Algorab (188.5), Gacrux (188.7)
GIENAH (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), Zaniah (185.9)
September 20 21 Equinox (265) 23 24 25
°September 16 17 18 19 20 21 (*184)
'August 24 (236) 25 (*157) 26 27 28 29
"August 10 (222) 11 12 (*144) 13 14 15
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 (308) Gb3-19 (80)
JANUARY 22 23 (388) 24
λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4) Andromeda Galaxy, π Andromedae (7.7) ε Andromedae (8.2), Delta (8.4), Schedir (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)
March 27 28 (452) 29 (88)
°March 23 24 (448) 25 (84)
'February 28 'March 1 (425) 2 (61)
"February 14 (2-14) 15 (46) 16 (*332)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JULY 24 25 (206) 26 (*127)
γ Muscae (189.0), Avis Satyra (189.3), Asterion (189.5), Kraz (189.7)  α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

Alderamin

Al Áwwā'-11 / Shur-mahrū-shirū-19
Sombrero Galaxy (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA, γ Centauri (191.5)
September 26 27 (270) 28
°September 22 (*185) 23 24
'August 30 (242) 31 'September 1 (*164)
"August 16 (*148) 17 18 (230)
Gb3-20 (310) Gb3-21 Gb3-22 Gb3-23 (84)
JANUARY 25 (390) 26 27 28
ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), Deneb Kaitos, η Phoenicis (9.4), Al Nithām (9.5) Achird (10.7) Legs-15 Cih, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³ Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8)
ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η ANDROMEDAE (11.4)
March 30 31 (90) April 1 2 (457)
'March 3 4 (428) 5 (64) 6 (*350)
"February 17 18 (414) 19 (50) 20 (*336)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JULY 27 (*128) 28 29 (210) 30
ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), Mimosa (192.9) no star listed (193) κ Crucis (194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ Crucis (194.6), Alioth (194.8) Minelauva (195.1), Cor Caroli (195.3)
September 29 (272) 30 October 1 2
'September 2 (*165) 3 4 5 (248)
"August 19 (*151) 20 21 22 (234)
Gb3-24 (314) Gb3-25 Gb3-26 (87)
JANUARY 29 (*314) 30 31 (396)
φ4 Ceti (13.2) no star listed (14) 1h (15.2)
β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), η Ceti, ζ Phoenicis (15.7)
April 3 (93) 4 5 (460)
'March 7 (*351) 8 9 (68)
"February 21 (52) 22 (418) Terminalia
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JULY 31 (*132) AUGUST 1 2 (214)
δ Muscae (196.5), Vindemiatrix (196.8) 13h (197.8) Apami-Atsa, ψ Hydrae (198.5)
ξ¹ Centauri (197.1), ξ² Centauri (197.9)
October 3 4 (277) 5
'September 6 7 (250) 8 (*171)
"August 23 24 (236) 25 (*157)

In Manuscript E many pages were needed for a complex story involving surfing towards land, holes in stones, stone figures, mother of pearl ornaments, necklaces, and other re-markable details. The position was the western side of the land, beyond Ahu Akapu the last of the kuhane stations, and probably the myth here re-counted the border between the old and new years.

... He went back out into the sea, and the movement of the wave was to the left side. Again he glanced, this time in the direction of Pu, and the ornament of Pu shone brightly. [Pu was the name of the place with a hole in the stone at Apina Nui. Maybe Pi(i) was meant to be the opposite of Pu, as when right is contrasted with left.] Again he went out into the sea. From the middle, the two necklaces around the neck of the two figurines shone (toward him). His ride on the wave ended in Rio, and therefore the name 'Hanga O Rio' was given. [There were 2 necklaces, but the story recounts only how one of them was used around the neck of the stone figure Apina Iti. The other stone figure was Rapa Kura and nothing is said if also this figure was buried up to her neck or not. Instead the name of the Apina Iti figure was strangely changed to Apina Iti A Rapa Kura. If Barthel has translated the story correct, then it contains puzzles to solve. Was the Apina Iti statue joined to the Rapa Kura statue when he got the necklace around his neck? But then the name changed again, this time to Hinariru, the son of Tuu Hokorua, where indeed the latter name is in harmony with my question - 'in a group of two'.] Ira remained on shore, pondered, and said, 'This is well done! Ruhi to the right, Pu to the left, and Hinariru Nui and Hinariru Iti in the middle.' ...

Hevelius has only 3 necklace stars (between ι and η):

Gb3-27 (88) Gb3-28 Gb3-29 Gb3-30
FEBRUARY 1 (32) 2 3 4 (400)
Al Batn Al Hūt-26 / Revati-28 ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6) no star listed (18) Adhil (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7)
MIRACH, Keun Nan Mun (16.0), Anunitum (16.5), REVATI (16.9)

Regulus

April 6 (*16) 7 8 9 (464)
'March 10 (*354) 11 12 13 (72)
"February 24 (*340) 25 26 27 (58)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 3 4 5 6 (218)
Al Dafīrah (199.4) σ Virginis (200.4) γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4) Al Simāk-12 / Chitra-14 / Horn-1 / Sa-Sha-Shirū-20

ANA-ROTO

Mizar (202.4), SPICA, Alcor (202.7)

Sadalmelik

October 6 7 (280) 8 9
'September 9 (*172) 10 11 12 (255)
"August 26 27 28 (240) 29 (*161)

Beyond heliacal θ Ceti was April 10 (100) and the beginning of a new glyph line. There were 4 days with no Sea Beast star and then came not only Baten Kaitos (ζ) but also τ and χ - letters with approximately the same meaning:

Gb4-1 Gb4-2 (93) Gb4-3 Gb4-4 (324)
FEBRUARY 5 (36) 6 (*322) 7 (403) 8
Ksora (20.1), ω Andromedae (20.6), γ Phoenicis (20.8) δ Phoenicis (21.5) υ Andromedae (22.9) Achernar (23.3), χ Andromedae (23.6), τ Andromedae (23.9)
April 10 (100) 11 (466) 12 4-13
3-14 'March 15 16 (*360) 17 (441)
"February 28 "March 1 (60) 2 3 (427)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 7 8 (*140) 9 10 (222)
71 Virginis (203.6) no star listed (204) Heze (205.0), Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (205.7) ε Centauri (206.3)
October 10 11 12 (285) 13
'September 13 14 (*177) 15 16 (259)
"August 30 (242) 31 "September 1 (*164) 2
Gb4-5 (325) Gb4-6 (97) Gb4-7
FEBRUARY 9 (40) 10 (*326) 11 (407)
τ Ceti (24.7) no star listed (25) ANA-NIA
χ Ceti (26.1), POLARIS, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9)
4-14 April 15 16 (106)
'March 18 19 (78) 20 (*364)
"March 4 5 (64) 6 (*350)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 11 (223) 12 (*144) 13 (590)
no star listed (207) τ Bootis (208.2), Benetnash (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8) no star listed (209)
October 14 15 (288) 16
'September 17 (260) 18 19 (*182)
"September 3 4 5 (248)
Egyptian sticks Phoenician taw Greek chi Χ (χ)
Greek tau Τ (τ)

In Plato's Timaeus, it is explained that the two bands that form the soul of the world cross each other like the letter Χ.

Chi or X is often used to abbreviate the name Christ, as in the holiday Christmas (Xmas). When fused within a single typespace with the Greek letter Rho, it is called the labarum and used to represent the person of Jesus Christ. (Wikipedia)

... tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300 ... Taw is believed to be derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph meaning 'mark' ...

Taw, Tav or Taf is the twenty-second and last letter in many Semitic abjads ... In gematria Tav represents the number 400, the largest single number that can be represented without using the Sophit forms ...

'From Aleph to Taf' describes something from beginning to end; the Hebrew equivalent of the English 'From A to Z' ...

Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew word emet, which means truth. The midrash explains that emet is made up of the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet (Aleph, Mem, and Tav...). Sheqer (falsehood), on the other hand, is made up of the 19th, 20th, and 21st (and penultimate) letters.

Thus, truth is all-encompassing, while falsehood is narrow and deceiving. In Jewish mythology it was the word emet that was carved into the head of the Golem which ultimately gave it life. But when the letter 'aleph' was erased from the Golem's forehead, what was left was 'met' - dead. And so the Golem died ... (Wikipedia)

The letter of Pythagoras (Υ) was used at glyph 329, between Sheratan and Alrisha, and the falling figure with υ-formed tail could possibly refer to the left path - and maybe also a plunge into the beginning of the river of Eridanus:

Gb4-8 (99) Gb4-9 (329) Gb4-10 Gb4-11 Gb4-12
FEBRUARY 12 (408) 13 2-14 (45) 15 16
Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-2 ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8) Alrisha, χ Phoenicis (29.2), Alamak (29.7) Arku-sha-rishu-ku-3 η Arietis (31.9)
2h (30.4)
 Segin, Mesarthim, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN, φ Phoenicis (27.4) κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (30.5)

Alkes

April 17 (107) 18 19 20 21
'March 21 (0h) 22 23 24 (*368) 25 (84)
"March 7 8 9 10 (*354) 11 (70)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 14 15 (227) 16 (*148) 17 18
Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3) φ Centauri (211.0), υ¹ Centauri (211.1), υ² Centauri (211.8), τ Virginis (211.9) Agena (212.1), θ Apodis (212.5), Thuban (212.8) 14h (213.1) Neck-2
π Hydrae, χ Centauri (213.0), Menkent (213.1) Asellus Tertius, κ VIRGINIS, 14 Bootis (214.8)
October 17 (290) 18 19 20 21
'September 20 21 Equinox (265) 23 (*186) 24
"September 6 7 (250) 8 9 (*172) 10

... In the story of Phaëton, which is another name for Helius himself (Homer, Iliad xi. 735 and Odyssey v. 479), an instructive fable has been grafted on the chariot allegory, the moral being that fathers should not spoil their sons by listening to female advice. This fable, however, is not quite so simple as it seems: it has a mythic importance in its reference to the annual sacrifice of a royal prince, on the one day reckoned as belonging to the terrestrial, but not to the sidereal year, namely that which followed the shortest day.

The sacred king pretended to die at sunset; the boy interrex was at once invested with his titles, dignities, and sacred implements, married to the queen, and killed twenty-four hours later: in Thrace, torn to pieces by women disguised as horses ... but at Corinth, and elsewhere, dragged at the tail of a sun-chariot drawn by maddened horses, until he was crushed to death. Thereupon the old king reappeared from the tomb where he had been hiding ... as the boy's successor ...

... And there is little doubt, in fact none, that Phaethon (in the strange transformation scenes of successive ages) came to be understood as Saturn. There is the testimony of Erastosthenes' Catasterisms, according to which the planet Saturn was Phaethon who fell from the chariot into Eridanus, and Stephanus of Byzantium calls Phaethon a Titan ...

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

... the strange hologram of archaic cosmology must have existed as a conceived plan, achieved at least in certain minds, even as late as the Sumerian period when writing was still a jealously guarded monopoly of the scribal class. Such a mind may have belonged to a keeper of records, but not of the living world, still less of the living thought. Most of the plan was never recorded. Bits of it reach us in unusual, hesitant form, barely indicated, as in the wisdom and sketches of Griaule's teacher, Ogotemmêli, the blind centenarian sage. In the magic drawings of Lascaux, or in American Indian tales, one perceives a mysterious understanding between men and other living creatures which bespeaks of relationships beyond our imagination, infinitely remote from our analytical capacity. 'From now on', said Father Sun, grieving over Phaeton, his fallen child, 'you shall be Mink'.

What meaning can this have for us? For such an understanding between men and men, and other living creatures too, we would need the kind of help King Arthur had at hand: 'Gwryr Interpreter of Tongues, it is meet that thou escort us on this quest. All tongues hast thou, and then canst speak all languages of men, with some of the birds and beasts.' This ability was also attributed to Merlin and Gwyon, those masters of cosmological wisdom whose names resound through the legends of the Middle Ages. In general, all fabulous communication was conceived as having such a range, not merely the Aesopian fable with is flat, all-too-wordly wisdom ...

(Tavake, the tropic bird, Phaeton.)