2. In the manzil system number 222 is connected with the last night of Corona Borealis:
222 = 14 + 16 * 13. The regular 13-night structure is then broken with Antares. The first 136 days of the Gregorian calendar ends with May 16, which at the time of G presumably was at the heliacal rising of the Pleiades and Gb8-23. The follows a peculiar 'bird man' with reversed head and outstretched ure:
'May 31 came 14 days later:
The manzil Qalb al Akraab has only 9 nights and it begins with December 25, stretching to the Shaula manzil. Possibly 'Sea' ('high tide') begins with Saad Al Thabib at February 11 (407) and stretches up to and including May 16 (136). 5 * 13 + 2 * 15 = 95. A better guess is to say that 'high tide' is beginning with the death of Balder (in the manzil Al Baldah). Day 260 from May 17 is January 31. 396 - 136 = 260. 'Land' could stretch for 260 days, beginning with the manzil Sheratan. Though if the manzil Alrescha refers to the star Alrisha, then the order between the stars has been reversed:
Gb7-23 has evidently been designed to resemble Ga7-14:
327 ('November 23) - 105 ('April 15) = 222 = 329 ('November 25) - 107 ('April 17):
The manzil system has a calendar with dates which perhaps are defined as a month beyond the heliacal risings of the stars at my assumed time of G. But the manzil Alresha has - presumably by design - been placed to begin with 2 May (100 days earlier than day 222) rather than 30 nights after the heliacal rising of Alrisha (in 'April 19). 'April 19 + 30 days = 109 + 30 = 139 = the day number of 'May 19.
Clearly the G text has been generated with a structure resembling that of the manzil system. The Heap of Fuel star (μ Cancri), for example, was rising heliacally 122 days after equinox (resembling how the beginning of Alrescha is placed 122 days after January 1).
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