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7. We should remember from the Babylonian sky roof that Venus was assigned a place where the 'morning' of the year was beginning, at the Rainbow and the rising fish Anunitum:
At the opposite side of the roof compared to the Field (between Swallow and Anunitum) was the Abyss (sweet water reservoir), which thus should represent the opposite of the morning of the year. Venus has her sign in the reconstruction above where we can identify her with the morning star. Venus as evening star will arrive half a cycle later in Virgo. But there we can see the sign of Mercury (a liquid child). It is like the sign of Venus but with a crescent added at the top:
It is hard to avoid thinking of the similarities between Venus as evening star and a Madonna with Child. If the 'old calabash' has fallen on his face it is time to raise a new one. The number Sign of Venus is 584 (its synodical cycle). We should count 584 - 472 = 112 and search for her glyph. The empty hand at the back side of the Rei with no flames confirms we are on the right track:
The heliacal rising of ω Virginis could symbolize the disappearance of Venus below earth before her returning (8 nights later) at the horizon in the west. 584 + 8 = 592.
In Ga5-9 the kiore at left has a very straight back - the only kiore glyph in G with this Sign - as if illustrating an effort at pushing hard upwards. Alchita means Corvus (and the Chinese name of α Corvi was Yew Hea, the Right-hand Linch-pin). |
