9. The 14th hour has the rest of the tail, with Mizar (ζ), Alcor (80), and Benetnash (η):
Alcor is rising exactly at the same time as Spica, with Mizar only hours earlier. Knowing the nature of Heze (ζ) we can guess the theme is the transfer of life from one generation to the next. Moe in Ga6-6 (where 6 * 6 = 36) is in the day beyond Benetnash, probably marking where a new season is beginning. We can compare with moe at the Heavenly Gate:
There are 18 weeks between them (291 - 165 = 126 = 7 * 18). Phakt (α Columbae) in Ga1-21 is a name similar to Phekda (γ Ursae Majoris) and also the glyphs are similar, with a triplet of mata at the back side. A man has two thighs, perhaps 9 * 42 = 378 glyphs apart (or 9 months):
Mizar is like Heze a 'zayin' star (ζ): "Mirak was an early name for this, a repetition of that for β [Merak rising 36 days earlier]; but Scaliger incorrectly changed it to the present Mizar, from the Arabic Mi'zar, a Girdle or Waist-cloth, which, although inappropriate, has maintained its place in modern lists; Mizat and Mirza being other forms. There is evident confusion in the early use of this word as a stellar title, for it has also been applied to the stars β and ε [Alioth] in this constellation ..." (Allen) "Alioth, sometimes Allioth, seems to have originated in the first edition of the Alfonsine Tables, and appeared with Chaucer in the Hours of Fame as Aliot; with Bayer, as Aliath, from Scaliger, and as Risalioth; with Riccioli, as Alabieth, Alaioth, Alhiath, and Alhaliath, all somewhat improbably derived, Scaliger said, from Alyat, the Fat Tail of the Eastern sheep. But the later Alfonsine editions adopted Aliare and Aliore - Riccioli's Alcore - from the Latin Almagest of 1515, on Al Tizini's statement that the word was Al Hawar, the White of the Eye, or the White Poplar Tree, i.e. Intensely Bright; Hyde transcribing the original a Al Haur...." "... This title [Alcor for 80 Ursae Majoris), and that of the star ε, Alioth, may be from the same source, for Smyth wrote of it: They are wrong who pronounce the name to be an Arabian word importing sharp-sightedness: it is a supposed corruption of al-jaśn, a courser, incorrectly written al-jat, whence probably the Alioth of the Alfonsine Tables came in, and was assigned to ε Ursae Majoris, the 'thill-horse' of Charles's Wain. This little fellow was also familiarly termed Suhā (The Forgotten, Lost, or Neglected One, because noticeable only by a sharp eye), and implored to guard its viewers against scorpions and snakes, and was the theme of a world of wit in the shape of saws ... but Miss Clerke says: The Arabs in the desert regarded it as a test of penetrating vision; and they were accustomed to oppose 'Suhel' to 'Suha' (Canopus to Alcor) as occupying respectively the highest and lowest posts in the celestial family. So that Vidit Alcor, et non lunam plenum, came to be a proverbial description of one keenly alive to trifles, but dull of apprehension for broad facts." (Allen) In the Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World: "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." At any rate, the tiny Alcor occupies the same right ascension as Spica and could therefore be imagined as a single little grain separated from its virgin mother ear. "... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ..." (Hamlet's Mill) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
