5. Corona Australis was one of the 48 constellations of Ptolemy: "... Corona Australis ... or Corona Austrina ... is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. Its Latin name means 'southern crown', and it is the southern counterpart of Corona Borealis, the northern crown. One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. The Ancient Greeks saw Corona Australis as a wreath rather than a crown and associated it with Sagittarius or Centaurus. Other cultures have likened the pattern to a turtle, ostrich nest, a tent, or even a hut belonging to a rock hyrax ..." (Wikipedia)  Given the significance of Corona Australis it is natural to compare it with its 'twin' Corona Borealis:
Obviously Corona Borealis has a significance resembling that of Corona Australis. It marks where the henua calendar is ending. The star Nusakan (rising heliacally in day 314 of the Gregorian calendar) was mentioned earlier as a name possibly indicating a 'broken platter' and Rogo in Gb1-3 (glyph number 314 - 80 = 234) probably marks the position of another 'curve' in time-space:
... Allen gives the name Nusakan for β Corona Borealis: '... is Nusakan in the 2d edition of the Palermo Catalogue, derived from the Masākin of the constellation.' 'Hyde quoted Kasat al Sālik, and Kas al Masākīn, the Pauper's Bowl, and the Persians had the same in their Kāsah Darwīshān, the Dervish's Platter, or Kāsah Shekesteh, the Broken Platter, because the circle [of the crown] is incomplete ...' Also his alternative name for Gemma (α) has to do with a platter: 'Alphecca, the Alphaca of Burritt's Atlas of 1835, was Ulug Beg's Al Nā'ir al Fakkah, The Bright One of the Dish ...' A broken circle is a curve and Alphekka Meridiana (α Corona Australis) surely is a name corresponding to Alphecca (= Gemma, α Corona Borealis):
There are 8 weeks from Gemma to Ga8-25. |
