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6. We still have to consider θ and σ Virginis:
Allen: "θ ... is on the front of the garment, below the girdle ... Moderns have no name for it, but in the Surya Siddhanta it was Apami-Atsa, the Child of the Waters." "... σ and τ, Tien Teen, the Heavenly Fields ..." Wikipedia: "Apam Napat is an eminent figure of the Indo-Iranian pantheon. In Hinduism, Apām Napāt is the god of fresh water, such as in rivers and lakes. In Zoroastrianism, Apąm Napāt is also a divinity of water ... Apām Napāt in Sanskrit and Apąm Napāt in Avestan mean 'grandson of waters' ... Sanskrit and Avestan napāt ('grandson') are cognate to Latin nepōs and English nephew, but the name Apām Napāt has also been compared to Etruscan Nethuns and Celtic Nechtan and Roman Neptune. In Yasht 19 of the Avesta Apąm Napāt appears as the Creator of mankind. Here, there is an evident link between the glory of sovereignty (Khvarenah) and Apąm Napāt who protects Khvarenah as the royal glory of Iranian kings. Apām Napāt is sometimes, for example in Rigveda book 2 hymn 35 verse 3, described as a fire-god who originates in water ... The reference to fire may have originally referred to flames from natural gas or oil seepages surfacing through water, as in a fire temple at Surakhany near Baku in Azerbaijan ... There is a conjecture that the word 'naphtha' came (via Greek, where it meant any sort of petroleum) from the name 'Apampat' ..." The peculiar (for us moderns) conjunction of fire and sweet water (vai ora) could be an aspect of events up in the sky which no longer interests us. In Manuscript E the turtle returned not to tai but to vai when she had 'broken the back' (lua) of Kuukuu: he ea te honu he uru ki roto ki te vai he oho (in the 8th and 9th lines on p. 28) The turtle returned (he uru) into (ki roto ki) the sweet water (te vai) and these words point at Venus, the planet who is born from 'the foam of the sea'. Manuscript E evidently has the explorer Uure corresponding to Venus:
Spica was named Ana-roto on Tahiti, the 'star pillar' in the middle. When did the turtle return into the water, according to Manuscript E? It was in the 23rd day in the month of Anakena, perhaps July 20. If so, it would have been the 29th night beyond the June solstice. 172 + 29 = 201 and σ Virginis is today rising heliacally 201 days beyond March 21. Counting at the following glyph Ga5-27 we will reach 52 * 7 = 364. It seems as if Manuscript E has shifted the frame of reference to a place which lies 64 days earlier in the year. Virgo is no longer in the right place (just beyond the corner of the solstice) and therefore the stars in Cancer have to be used. 64 * 72 = 4608. The Easter Islanders could like the Mangaians have kept the precessional clock going: ... Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ...
In The Armpit chapter the Pegasus Square was found to be connected with Apam Napat:
... The name Salm (for τ Pegasi, Kerb) is also the name of the eldest son of king Fereydun, another name of which was Apam Napat ('Son of Waters'): Salm is a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh. He is the oldest son of [the] legendary hero and king Fereydun. It is believed that his name was given to him by his father, after Salm chooses to seek safety and run instead of fighting the dragon that had attacked him and his brothers (the dragon was Fereydun himself who had disguised himself to test his sons) ... When Fereydun decides to divide his kingdom among his sons, he gives Salm [the timid unmanly one] Anatolia and West [the female side of the kingdom] ... Fereydūn ... [is] also called Apam Napat, 'Son of the Waters' ... ... τ, 4.5, with ν, was Al Sufi's Sa'd al Na'amah, which Knobel thinks should be Al Na'āim, the Cross-bars over a well; but they also were known as Al Karab, the Bucket-rope. The usual titles for τ - Markab and Sagma or Salma - are from Bayer, but the last two should be Salm, a Leathern Bucket.
Perhaps the letter θ depicts a well with a cross-bar. Or the equator crossing the circle of the sky dome. Kerb is one of the stars noted with position in my astronomy book:
Day 355 after March 21 is the same time as 10 days before March 21. 80 + 355 - 365 = 70 is the day number for March 11 ('one more'). At Candlemas I presented an overview of glyphs and dates stretching from December 10 to February 22 - given that March 21 is at Gb6-25. We should now take the opportunity to continue the sequence to March 24:
The distance from Kerb (the Bucket-rope) to Apami-Atsa is 210 days:
I would not be surprised if Al Karab, the Scarab, and 'the Old Carapace' (the old sky dome?) were one and the same, names concerning 'life' and 'death' for Sun. The position of Kerb, just beyond the corner defined by 12 * 29½ nights, suggests the 'death' station for the old solar year. 61 * 6 = 366 = 'one more' than 365. This year is evidently to be counted from spring equinox north of the equator. The birth of the opposite half of the year could come 7 months later, presumably meaning 'land' covers 7 months from spring equinox to the beginning of October. 52 * 5 = 260 at honu in glyph number 136 could indicate where a new 'fire' is hoisted up from the deep well. 136 points at the distance from heliacal rising to culmination at midnight. The beginning of side a is the location of the corresponding heliacal rising (May 26, day 144). Ariki in Ga6-3 is at October 15 = day 2 * 144 = 288. |
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