3. Be that as it may be. We should continue with Nunki and according to my astronomy book it was at that time rising heliacally just after 19h:
At the time of G Nunki was presumably rising a day earlier, in 'May 26. Right ascension time 19h corresponds to day number 19 / 24 * 365¼ = 289 beyond spring equinox north of the equator and 80 + 289 = 369 points at 'January 4. The end of the year ought to have been in the night following the heliacal rising of Double Double (ε Lyrae):
The Sagittarius star at Ga8-19 is Ain al Rami (ν) and we remember ain means eye. The 'eye' in Taurus (ε) - the Bull's Eye (cfr at Coma Berenices III) - comes 223 - 3 = 220 days earlier:
At Hercules I suggested a connection with Zhōngshān (ο Herculis) and indeed we can see the pupil of the eye:
"ν¹ and ν², red stars of the 5th magnitude, 12' apart, and both double, were Άin al Rāmi, the Archer's Eye. Ptolemy catalogued them as a nebulous double star, - νεφελοειδής καί διπλους, - among the first to be so designated. With ξ and ο [Manubrium] they were the Chinese Kien Sing, a Flag-staff." (Allen) I imagine the star name 'Handle' (manubrium) could refer to the central bone in front with this name:
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