10. The peculiar vaha mea in Ga6-5 coincides with Benetnash (η Ursae Majoris), the last of the 7 (or 8) stars of the Big Dipper to rise:
The glyph number, 146, is presumably meant to represent 2 * 73 (among other things, e.g. 14 * 6 = 84), because we are impelled to connect Benetnash with vaha mea in Ga3-13:
There are (at least) 9 vaha mea glyphs in the text and one of them is at Polaris, half a year earlier than the end of the tail of Ursa Major:
... Tradition goes that to be unable to see the Pole Star, the Milky Way and Arundhatī indicates that one is 'already with death' and to see Arundhatī and the Polar Star intermittently presages death within a year ... To be close to the north pole in the sky seems to be associated with death. 108 = 472 - 364 and 72 * 5 = 360. "The name [Benetnash] derives from the Arabic phrase meaning 'The leader of the daughters of the bier'. The daughters of the bier, i.e. the mourning maidens, are the three stars of the handle of the Big Dipper, Alkaid, Mizar, and Alioth; while the four stars of the bowl, Megrez, Phecda, Merak, and Dubhe, are the bier." (Wikipedia) A stretcher is a symbol of death, also Caesar and Kuukuu were carried on a bier:
If we combine Ga2-28 with Ga2-29, then the result is very much a peculiar vaha mea glyph, where the tail of the descending fish is formed like an open mouth:
Counting days from Polaris and April 18 (108) to July 27 (208) will move us to the 'egg' (ο) of Ursae Majoris at vaha mea in Ga3-4. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
