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1. The name Kissin means a kind of climbing flower: ... Hyde cited some ancient codices as applying to Fl. 21, toward the south, the title Kissīn, a species of ivy, Convolvulus, or perhaps the climbing Dog-rose. This appeared in Ulu Beg, evidently from Ptolemy's κίσσινος, but Ideler said that it was intended to mark c, g, and h, and Baily, that is was for Fl. 21 or 23 ... "Convolvulus is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include bindweed and morning glory, both names shared with other closely related genera." (Wikipedia) These facts should make us remember the offspring of Antares (cfr at Ruhi): ... The summer wife of Rehua [Antares] was the star Ruhi-te-rangi, but it is also said that he mated with Rigel ... In another old story Rehua mated with Puanga, Rigel, and their offspring were the clematis and another plant which were born in Mahuru, spring (August). They still suckle their mother during August and herald the coming of spring. Their birth was facilitated by Rua-moko, god of earthquakes, who marks the change of seasons. Clematis is a climbing plant, and surely it must allude to how Sun (and the sky) is climbing higher and higher in spring.
Bindweed sounds exactly right for the tresses of Berenice - something which will function for 'braiding' - and like clematis the members of the Convolvulaceae family are great climbers. We can guess the position in time ought to be just beyond summer solstice. Sun is standing straight and tall like a tree and can be used for climbing (kake).
The look of Medusa turned men into stone, froze them to death, whereas the locks of Benerike saved her husband from death. Medusa evidently corresponds to cold winter and Berenike to warm summer:
Let's measure:
If we count Gb8-30 twice, then the distance from Gb8-13 to Ga5-15 will be 472 + 126 - 455 = 143 glyphs, which agrees with the distance between the heliacal risings of Kissin and Algol. May 7 is 143 days earlier than September 27. And the rest of the year covers 365 - 143 = 222 days. Counted from ca 220 B.C. the precession ought to have moved the stars ahead in the year with about (2000 + 220) / 72 = ca 31 days:
Summer solstice is in day 172 and if we should move a further (239 - 172) * 72 = 4800 years back in time Kissin would rise heliacally around midsummer (north of the equator). At that time - in the Golden Age - Algol would be rising heliacally towards the end of January, because 96 - (239 - 172) = 29. If we wish Algol to rise heliacally at equinox (March 21), then the time would have to be around (127 - 80) * 72 = 3384 earlier than today, and Kissin would at that time have risen heliacally in day 80 + 143 = 223 or in August 11. In Nordic mythology is told how in the beginning there was Ask, a man, and Embla, a woman. The ash tree (ask in Swedish) is tall and straight and we can imagine Embla played the role of Convolvulus. "Old Norse askr literally means 'ash tree' but the etymology of embla is uncertain ... A Proto-Indo-European basis has been theorized for the duo based on the etymology of embla meaning 'vine'. In Indo-European societies, an analogy is derived from the drilling of fire and sexual intercourse. Vines were used as a flammable wood, where they were placed beneath a drill made of harder wood, resulting in fire." (Wikipedia) The result of drilling will in the end be ashes (rehu on Tahiti, cfr also Rehua as a name for Antares), perhaps a word derived from the ash tree. Or the other way around, because the stem of the straight ash tree was used for making spears: "The tree's common English name, ash, goes back to the Old English æsc, while the generic name [Fraxinus] originated in Latin. Both words also meant 'spear' in their respective languages." (Wikipedia) We can guess this is the origin of the idea of a vero glyph close to Kissin:
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