If we should instead of MARCH 21 use MARCH 25 as the date for spring equinox at the time of the Hyades Gate - the same rule as that of Julius Caesar - then there would be 52 days from the northern spring equinox to τ Aquilae. If SEPTEMBER 22 was the date for the autumn equinox, then τ Scorpii would in a way have been in the middle between nakshatra Ana-mua (Antares, the star in front) and heliacal Ana-muri (the star at the stern, Aldebaran):
We could then measure the distance from the middle between nakshatra Ana-mua and heliacal Ana-muri to nakshatra Ana-roto (the star in the center) as 219 (AUGUST 7) - 83 (MARCH 24) = 136 days. Counted from JANUARY 1 the nakshatra night of Spica would - at the time of the Hyades Gate - have been the measure for the cycle of Venus (584 = 219 + 365). ... After five complete cycles totaling 2,920 days, the movement of Venus fill eight idealized years of 365 days each and come within hours of spanning 99 lunations ... Day 25 (5 * 5 and a Saturn number) was used not only at March (equinox according to Caesar) but it can also be found in our own Gregorian calendar - for the cardinal dates June 25 (the day after St John's Eve) and December 25 (Christmas Day). Furthermore, in April 25 was the ritual for raising the sky according to the Chorti diviners: ... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive ...
From the exceptional manu rere in Gb4-6 to the same bird in normal dress (Gb4-15) there were 9 days. A place of birth (a 'zero' night) could have been illustrated in Gb4-16, 10 nights beyond February 9 (40) and this was where the Arabs had their Virgo Covering (Al Ghafr):
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