5. To continue:
24 M. (Delle Caustiche) is not as conspicious as 8 M. and 20 M.:
The star η Sagittarii is not mentioned by Allen, but its position 277 days after equinox (at the time of G) should have been significant. And 8 * 10 = 80. It is the star lowest down in the constellation and seemingly touching Corona Australis:  
In Bode's version of the Archer
he seems more interested in
Corona Australis than in his
Bow, and the knee of his
left front leg forms an apex
inside its top.
The Bow is peculiarly
serpentine in form
and even more so in the
version of Hevelius:
Its form reminds me of a variant of the kava type of glyph:
When the River of Time runs slowly close to a solstice it ought to take a serpentine form. |
