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2. Allen: "Pliny wrote in the Historia Naturalis: nec (cernit) Canopum Italia et quem vocant Berenices crinem, which Bostock and Riley correctly translated, in 1855, 'nor can we, in Italy, see the star Canopus, or Berenice's Hair'; but Holland has rendered this, in 1601, 'neither hath Italy a sight of Canopus, named also Berenices Hair', from which mistranslation it was long inferred that the southern heavens contained another sky group bearing this same title. And this blunder has been perpetuated, even in Doctor Murray's New English Dictionary, which defines the word as the name 'formerly of the southern star Canopus', citing as authority the foregoing passage from Holland. Pliny's statement as to the invisibility of Coma from Italy of course was incorrect then as now." But I believe Holland was telling the truth. Canopus is the great star down far south which once may have been regarded as the creator of 'fire'. And by 'fire' I am now using the definition in Hamlet's Mill: ... It should be stated right now that 'fire' is actually a great circle reaching from the North Pole of the celestial sphere to its South Pole ... Today Canopus is rising at 06h 21m or 96.6 days beyond March 21. Around 7,000 years ago it would have been close to 00h:
If we should count Summer as 192 days long, then we could say there are 96 days before and 96 days after the solstice, with vero marking the end of the 2nd half:
192, of course, is half 384 (the number of nights necessary to cover 13 lunar months). Kissin and Canopus are like a pair of corners in the structure of time. When Sun is reaching the house of Coma Berenice it is his 'evening' - ahiahi (the negation of ahi):
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